OBI Report Refresh automation

Hi All
I am having Oracle Data Integrator as ELT tool and Oracle Business Intelligence as reporting tool. Both are in Linux servers.
I want to automate the report refreshal. My plan for this automation is as below:
When ODI load gets completed, touch a file in my ODI server which will be FTPed to my OBI Server and let the report refresh starts.
However, I have doubt about how to make OBI report refreshing as event based/file based?
Any help/Sugesstion is most welcome as I am stuck up in this point.
Thanks
Karthik

Hi
The problem with this soultion is that what happens if the ETL was not completed at that time?.
For example,
i am scheduling Report A to be refreshed by 0400 assuming the ETL gets completed by 0345 or atleast by 0359. If at some unavoidable circumstances if my ETL load got failed or it gets completed by say 0430, then as per my scheduling the report will be refreshed by 0400 which is not correct.
So I want to have something like, once my ETL load gets completed, I will touch a file/make an entry in table. I want the OBI refresh to be like event based such that only when that file is made/entry is made my report refresh should be initiated.
Its something like event based trigger as we have in BO. Kindly suggest your soultion.
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