OBIEE The connection has failed Essbase Error 226246926

Question

I recently installed BI Administration Tool 11.1.1.7 64bit on my Windows 7 machine and was trying to establish a connection to Essbase. After setting the properties for Database and Connection Pool in the Physical Layer, when I click on "Import Metadata" I am getting an error "The connection has failed Essbase Error 226246926". I choose Essbase 9 on the Database type The connection pool properties for the rest of it is all default, I even tried using Essbase 11 but still getting the same error.
Earlier, when I had BI Admin Tool 11.1.1.6, I was able to successfully establish the connection using database type as Essbase 9 but after the the upgrade I was not able to establish the connection.
I would appreciated any suggestions/inputs to fix the issue

Answer 1

Hi,
his issue is fixed. tnsnames.ora file need to exist in the both OBIEE Oracle homes ( C:\Middleware\Oracle_BI1 and C:\Middleware\oracle_common )
After the 11.1.1.5 installation on my Windows Machine, C:\Middleware\Oracle_BI1\network\admin directory structure was created.
However for the 2nd Oracle Home (C:\Middleware\oracle_common), the directory structure existed only till C:\Middleware\oracle_common\network. I copied the TNS file to C:\Middleware\oracle_common\network.
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