OBIEE11.1.1.6 OCI

Question

Hi,
I'm using BIEE11.1.1.6,
and I use OCI to import data,
now my problem is I can import table, but when I view data ,it will warning me 'The connection has failed.'
I have set ORACLE_HOME and TNS_ADMIN, put the tnsnames.ora under %TNS_ADMIN%.
I think if I hasn't set the environment variables,I will not import table.
then I tried another way,I changed the connection, set the Data source to 'ip:port/SID', also use 'OCI 10G/11G'
By this way,I can view the data,
so anyone know why?

Answer 1

I had this same problem - my OBI EE server is Linux and I am running the Oracle BI Administration Tool remotely on a Windows 7 machine.
I installed the Oracle client 11g first, the the Oracle BI Client Tools 11.1.1.6. The repository connection was fine and my dashboards are all running and connection to database, but in the remote Administration tool, none of the connection pools could Import Metadata. (TNS error in the logs). I can sqlplus to any of these data sources from this machine no problem.
Based on your suggestions, I copied my both the client bin folder and then the tnsnames.ora file on the client tools machine from
Oracle Client BIN
C:\Oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\BIN
to
C:\Program Files\Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus Client\oraclebi\orahome\BIN
AND
tnsnames.ora
C:\Oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\network\admin
to
C:\Program Files\Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus Client\oraclebi\orahome\network\admin
(in this case I had to create the \network\admin folders
and every connection started working fine
It doesn't make sense to me that the client tool wouldn't see and use the existing Oracle Home and use the existing client librarires and tnsnames. ora, but whatever works I guess.
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