Presentation service users

Anyway to add the user to group without logging in? Now we can only see the user after logging in. Anyway to create user in Presentation Service?

If I understand your question correctly, you want to create catalog users without having to log in as those users.
As far as I know this is currently not possible. There was a thread here about creating presentaiton service users using web services, and I think the conclusion was that such a web service currently does not exist (you may want to try to search for this thread).
Can you achieve what you want to do by setting the WEBGROUPS session variable by an initializaiton block in the RPD? That way, when the user logs in they will be members of the specified web group.

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Automation of Users in Oracle BI presentation services

In Oracle BI presentation services users are only visible if and only if they login atleast once so I want to create those users also in Presentation services who have not yet logged in.

Why do you want this?
If you need this to assign them to a group. You can do this in the repository as well. If you define a group in the RPD it will be used in the presentation services as well.

Create a new user in Presentation Services

Hello All,
I would like to know if it is possible to create a user in Presentation Services.
For now, when we create a user, we use the administration tool. We do the following manipulation:
Manage-> Security-> Action-> users
Is it possible to create a new user in Presentation Services?
Thank you in advance for your answers
Best regards

Hi,
Users are created in the Repository. When a user logs in via the presentation server, this user is validated against the one created in the repository.
Cheers.
Daan Bakboord
http://obiee.nl

OBIEE 11g Active Directory Presentation Service Error retrieving user

Hi Team,
It was a great help from all of you on our OBIEE learnings.
I recently configured Microsoft AD on Weblogic rather than RPD. But felt like I am in a desert of helplessness due to the complicated and lengthy documents and settings :(
Still when I configured everything and logged in to presentation services using AD Credentials, observed following error!
Error retrieving user/group data from Oracle BI Server's User Population API.
Error Details
Error Codes: GDU6UYHS:OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P:SDKE4UTF
Odbc driver returned an error (SQLExecDirectW).
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 43113] Message returned from OBIS. [nQSError: 13049] User 'gp06108' with 'oracle.bi.publisher.scheduleReport;AtAGlance;oracle.bi.publisher.accessReportOutput;_all_;oracle.bi.publisher.accessExcelReportAnalyzer;_all_;oracle.epm.financialreporting.accessReporting;Explore;oracle.bi.publisher.accessOnlineReportAnalyzer;EPM_Essbase_Filter;oracle.bi.publisher.runReportOnline;oracle.as.scheduler.security.MetadataPermission' permission can not query user population.Please have your System Administrator look at the log for more details on this error. (HY000)
Please have your System Administrator look at the log for more details on this error.
Expression: privileges['Admin: Catalog']['Change Permissions']
Total blockout! Anyone faced this issue earlier

You need a user to be present in your Active Directory Base DN that will be used as the BISystemUser. You will either have to create this user in AD or use an existing AD user and then specify its credentials in Enterprise Manager (expand Weblogic Domain > bifoundation_domain (right click) > Security > Credentials). You will need to set system.user credential under oracle.bi.system map. Make sure your AD user's password never expires or you will run into problems in a few weeks time!
Paul

How to create new user for OBIEE presentation service

Hello Guys
I now only have 2 users on my OBIEE, demo1, demo2.. Now I'd like to create a new user call A and make this new user able to log on to OBIEE presenation service..
So I went to the RPD admin tool and created new user there and gave password. It was done online mode and I checked out..
I am able to login to admin tool with the new user account, but when I go to presentation service, I am not able to see this new user nor would I be able to log on using the new user account..
So how does this work? If I wanted to create a new user and let it access dashboard, I'd I do it
Any pointer will be greatly appreciated
Thanks

Hi.
actually there is no option available in presentation service to create user. There you can just delete user and create and delete the groups.
Anyhow, you said you have created a user in rpd.
To see this user in answers, you must login into answers with this user once.
are you able to login with the newly created user?
(As you said you done the creation of user in online mode, this may not effect to the answers)
if not, just login with administrator into answers, click on reload server metadata, then log off from there.
Now, try to login with the new user. You may able to login.
OR
just restart your BI Server services.

Deleted user able to login to Oracle BI Publisher Web, Presentation Service

Hi All,
i have chosen "Oracle BI Server" as my security model and everything is working fine, i had to delete a user, i deleted the user from RPD, deleted user from Presentation services from "Manage Presentation catalog users and groups" and restarted services: Oracle BI Server, Oracle Presentation server, Oracle Java Host, OC4J.
after restart i am able to login into both presentation services and Oracle BI Publisher web, do i need to do anything more to restrict access to the deleted users.
Thanks and Regards,
Sreekanth.

If you are using BI Server for the security, then it is maintaining the users and what they can get to. You might clear browser caches and ensure you bounce the BIP server.
Tim

Unable to login to presentation services after doing the upgrade 10g to 11g

Hi All,
I had a running instance of OBIEE 11g 11.1.1.6.0, my 11g rpd and webcatlog was working fine. Imp to note is that, I had configured external LDAP authenticator and wasn't using the weblogic embedded LDAP.
Now, today, I had to updrage 10g RPD and Webcatlog to 11g and merge into the my current 11g system. I ran the upgrade utitlity and it completed the upgrade successfully but now when I try to login into presentation services using the weblogic user, the presentation services gets hung. It doesn't even give me a message like "Invalid login or password" I DON't get any message but my Presentation services and RPD gets hung( when I try to open it online)
Also, I am trying to refresh the GUIDs after making the necessary changes in the config and instanceconfig.xml file i start the obi server and presentation server, it doesn't come up. So I am unable to refresh my GUIDs
What could be issue here? Do I need to fix an credential file? Please let me know.
Thanks,
Ronny

Ronny wrote:
Hi All,
I had a running instance of OBIEE 11g 11.1.1.6.0, my 11g rpd and webcatlog was working fine. Imp to note is that, I had configured external LDAP authenticator and wasn't using the weblogic embedded LDAP. Was LDAP access working fine before upgrading the 10g rpd and webcat?
Now, today, I had to updrage 10g RPD and Webcatlog to 11g and merge into the my current 11g system. I ran the upgrade utitlity and it completed the upgrade successfully but now when I try to login into presentation services using the weblogic user, the presentation services gets hung. It doesn't even give me a message like "Invalid login or password" I DON't get any message but my Presentation services and RPD gets hung( when I try to open it online)What do the logs say?
Also, I am trying to refresh the GUIDs after making the necessary changes in the config and instanceconfig.xml file i start the obi server and presentation server, it doesn't come up. So I am unable to refresh my GUIDsWhen you say doesn't come up, do you mean the services are down? If yes, what do the logs say about this?

To install Remote Desktop Services User CAL on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with SP1

Dear Sir,
Presently we have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with SP 1. And now i would like to install Remote Desktop Services User CAL on this server. I have 25 digit product key of Windows Server
2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services User CAL (20). Downloaded this product key from our MSDN Subscriptions.
Kindly suggest me how to install (CAL server with product key that i have) and configure remote desktop services on my above existing server also how to point other server with my CAL server.
Thanks

Hi,
1. Install Remote Desktop Session Host and Remote Desktop Licensing Role Services using Server Manager.
2. Open RD Licensing Manager (licmgr.exe), Activate your server, then install your license
3. In RD Session Host Configuration (tsconfig.msc), set the Licensing mode to Per User and Specify your RD Licensing server name (itself). If you want you may configure these two settings via group policy setting instead. The path of the
group policy settings is Computer Configuration\ Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\ Remote Desktop Services\ Remote Desktop Session Host\ Licensing
4. You may point other RDSH servers to your RD Licensing server using RD Session Host Configuration or via group policy as mentioned above.
5. Optionally you may consider installing other Remote Desktop Role Services such as RD Gateway, RD Web Access, RD Connection Broker, etc.
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OBIEE 11G - Unable to login to presentation services

Hi All,
I have done a simple installation of OBIEE 11G on my coloud server with OS windows server 2003, SP2 , 32 bit.
Installation is 88% completed with,
Executing : opmnctl start coreapplication_obiccs1 and Executing: opmnctl start coreapplication_obips1 failed. Came to know that this is related to clusters and ignored the error.
RCU is installed in different database server.
Now i am trying to login to presentation services with weblogic as userid and password that i had given during installation of obi.
I am getting error that userid or password is invalid...
One thing i came to know from the thread OBIEE 11g Cluster Controller Failed to start is,
i have a bad IP in /etc/hosts... below are the entries in the file... can anyone please tell me what necessary changes i should do?
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
# For example:
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
Regards,
srl

HI Srini,
Thanks for the response,
I can able to logic Obiee Em/Console services with the same user Web logic. Only Presentation services not able to login.
Please find my sawlog0:
[2014-01-08T19:54:52.000+05:30] [OBIPS] [NOTIFICATION:1] [] [saw.securitysubsystem.checkauthentication.runimpl] [ecid: f86ee0615f1822d9:694c3368:14372397042:-8000-00000000000002fd,0:1:1] [tid: 3400] Authentication Failure.
Odbc driver returned an error (SQLDriverConnectW).
State: 08004. Code: 10018. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: 08004] [nQSError: 10018] Access for the requested connection is refused.
[nQSError: 43113] Message returned from OBIS.
[nQSError: 43126] Authentication failed: invalid user/password. (08004)[[
File:checkauthentication.cpp
Line:1330
Location:
saw.securitysubsystem.checkauthentication.runimpl
saw.threadpool.asynclogon
saw.threads
ecid: f86ee0615f1822d9:694c3368:14372397042:-8000-00000000000002fd,0:1:1
ThreadID: 3400
Please advice
Regards,
Kulkarni

What Is Presentation Services Cache In Fact?

I have searched on this forum and on BI blogs but don't understand the concept of a presentation services cache clearly.
At first let tell what I need.
I have a dashboard page with prompts and report. From this report I navigate to another dashboard page with reports and several promts that have to be initialized with values from previous dashboard page. The navigation is based on PortalPageNav() function.
I created table in DB, PL/SQL function , through EVALUATE I passed parameters to PL/SQL function and wrote its into DB table.
Then I added this table in RPD and on Presentation Layer.
In Answers I get correct results.
Then I initialize the default values of prompts on a second dashboard page through 'SQL Results' and type something like this:
SELECT "Parameters"."Value" FROM "BO" WHERE "Parameters"."Name"='Param1'
1. I login and go to first dashboard page, change prompts, run report then navigate to second dashboard (it opens in new window). All prompts initialize correctly.
2. I open window with first dashboard page change prompts, run report then navigate to second dashboard again. And I see the previous values in prompts. But in a DB table I see new values.
There 2 ways for deciding this problem
1. By clearing cursor cache:
answers - administration- manage session - close all cursors
or
answers - administration- manage session - choose appropriate cursor and close it
2. By reloading second dashboard page
All ways are not convenient or user friendly.
BUT I NEED IN AUTOMATIC CLEARING OR NOT CACHING SOME PROMPTS!
I cant't write in a user's guide - for correct work you have to login as Administrator and clear cursor cache every time after changing prompts on first dashboard page or reloading second dashboard page :)
I became research this issue.
1. BI Server Cache is turned off through NQSConfig.ini
2. I began read a lot of info about Presentation Services Cache:
1) John Minkjan blog - [http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/11/obiee-presentation-services-cache.html]
I need no turn Presentation Services Cache or disable it.
2) [http://businessdecisionsystems.com/blog/?p=122] this article give us info about storing log records but there is no info about clearing cursors.
3) [http://hekatonkheires.blogspot.com/2010/02/obiee-10g-presentation-server-cache.html] good article about physical storing of presentation services cache but I didn't find any info on clearing some cursors
4) Nico in a blog write [http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/html_cache#clear_the_presentation_server_cache_without_stopping_and_restarting_the_services] that Presentation Services Cache is a HTML cache but he don't say how clean the entries without clicking on 'Close All Cursors' button.
5) In this topic presentation cache refresh in prompt the same problem and no answer :(
6) The user10203008 in a topic To pass new session variable value to stored proc before running a report. has the same issue but all advices about BI Server Cache. He found solution but it is disable whole Presentation Services Cache. I need clear ONLY SOME CURSORS.
So, I have a answer!
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE IS STORING DATA ABOUT CURSORS ON A PAGE ANSWERS - ADMINISTRATION - MANAGE SESSION ?
May be somebody knows a developer of Siebel Analytics or may be he is on a forum and tell us how realized a clearing some cursors in a automatic mode?
Edited by: AnTonic on Jan 28, 2011 7:17 PM
Edited by: AnTonic on Jan 28, 2011 7:18 PM
Edited by: AnTonic on Jan 28, 2011 7:20 PM

I found a solution.
I decide to emulate a pressing button 'Refresh' at the end of a page. So I look at a html code of Dashboard page and found a corresponding javascript function. It is RefreshPage('saw.dll?Dashboard&PortalPath=<PortalPath>&Page=<PagePath>')So I trying to create a text box with HTML Markup option and enter RefreshPage on onload() function. But then I got a cycle: open dashboard page -> onload() -> RefreshPage() -> onload() -> RefreshPage() -> ...
So I decide to find a code of this function. The function code is in %SAROOTDIR%\web\app\res\b_mozilla\dashboards\portalscript.js
// force cache refresh
function RefreshPage(sCmd)
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}We may see that for refreshing page the Action='RefreshAll' is used. So we need pass this Action.
I wrote in a first post that I was using PortalPageNav() javascript function for navigation. So I created my custom CustomPortalPageNav() function which is based on original PortalPageNav() code with one new parameter 'sAction'. So I pass a value 'RefreshAll' through this parameter and it works!

Unable to open dashboards in presentation services

Hi All,
I have recently installed BI applications in my system.After installtion I am unable to open dashboards.Answers and delivers all the others are working fine.
When I click on the dashboard link it is giving the following error
"access denied for user to path /users/administrator/_portal.
Error Details
Error Codes: O9XNZMXB".
Thank You

Hi ,
I could't able to solve my problem after going through the above post.
I Want to login into Presentation services using paint/paint as userid & pwd, but it is throwing me following error.
" Unable to Log In
Error connecting to the Oracle BI Server: The specified ODBC DSN is referencing a subject area that no longer exists within the Oracle BI Repository.
Error Details
Error Codes: WH4KCFW6:OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC
Odbc driver returned an error (SQLDriverConnectW).
State: 08004. Code: 10018. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: 08004] [nQSError: 10018] Access for the requested connection is refused. [nQSError: 43037] Invalid catalog, Sales - Order Lines, specified. (08004) "
When i gave some blank pwd, then it clearly shows that "An invalid User Name or Password was entered."
So, i concluded that the pwd which am giving for the pain is correct and there is some thing to do with my catelog. So, i went ahead and changed in the instanceconfig file as pain catalog and even restarted oc4j, Bi server & Presentation server, even then its giving me the same error.
Also, my NQS file have paint red as default.
Can anyone give some inputs on this error and how to over come this?

How to set up presentation service group based on groups defined in LDAP

Hello guys
we have successfully implemented LDAP authentication, and we imported 5 groups from LDAP to BI server. However, these 5 groups and their members are not displaying on presentation server under presentation catalog group, it still only has two groups "everyone" and "admin"..
To manuelly create these 5 groups and members will be too much work, so what can I do to get these 5 groups and members on presentation service with the proper data level security defined in admin tool?
Please advice
Thanks

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http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/oracle-bi-ee-101332-and-oid-user-and-group-phase-2/

Error - The registration of the service "User Profile Service" has failed. The user profile can not be loaded

I am running an environment with an Active Directory and Terminal Servers.
I have searched high and low for resolutions to this error but I cannot find anything related to my situation, let me explain further.
The fixes I found are related to local users only.
When I create a new user in the Active Directory I provide the paths to the profile folder in the "Remote Desktop Profile" and "Profile tab" lets say for example \\ad001\home\%username% and \\ad001\profil\%username% .
I give rights to the user to read/write the "home" folder which is mapped for folder redirection. An I know that when the user first logs on it should create a "v2.%username%" folder upon successful logon. This is when I am
presented with the error message below:
"The registration of the service "User Profile Service" has failed.
The user profile can not be loaded"
Does anyone have any experience with this or know a suitable fix. Again this is for the "Roaming" profile creation no local.
Many thanks in advance.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Did you receive for any one user or for all users?
Have you tried to solve the issue by fixing the user account profile?
For that you can adjust the registry setting “ProfileImagePath” with
particular SID of that user under below mention path.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Also if this can’t resolve the issue you can try to delete the SID of that user or renaming the old and and then check the result again by creating new profile for that users.
More information.
You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

Error while starting Presentation services

Hi,
I tried adding the following tag in instanceconfig.xml file and restarted the Presentation services.
<PivotView>
<MaxCells> 4000000 </MaxCells>
<MaxVisibleColumns> 5000 </MaxVisibleColumns>
<MaxVisiblePages> 2500 </MaxVisiblePages>
<MaxVisibleRows> 50000 </MaxVisibleRows>
<MaxVisibleSections> 3000 </MaxVisibleSections>
<ResultRowLimit>20000</ResultRowLimit>
</PivotView>
<CubeMaxRecords> 1000000 </CubeMaxRecords>
<CubeMaxPopulatedCells> 1000000 </CubeMaxPopulatedCells>
When i tried to access the OBIEE dashboard link , it throws the following error: *500 Internal error.*Also in the ascontrol.log file, the following error occured:
*[EMUI_10_10_40_/console/ias/logging/logfiles] WARN util.HGridDataSource setSelected.354 - setSelection: key should not be null*
Could anyone help me in this?
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OBIEE 11.1.6.2, Presentation Services is Down

Hi All,
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[2013-06-26T06:45:40.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [NOTIFICATION:1] [] [saw.sawserver] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Oracle BI Presentation Services (OBIPS) 11.1.1.6.2 (Build 120604.0813 BP1 64-bit) are starting up.[[
File:sawserver.cpp
Line:455
Location:
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:40.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [WARNING:1] [] [saw.webextensionbase.init.workstationCheck] [ecid: ] [tid: ] WARNING: The Oracle BI Presentation Services server is running on a workstation class machine (Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Professional etc.). The number of concurrent users may be severely limited by the operating system.[[
File:webextensionbase.cpp
Line:483
Location:
saw.webextensionbase.init.workstationCheck
saw.webextensionbase.init
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:40.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [ERROR:1] [] [saw.catalog.local.checkforcatalogupgrade] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Could not find the catalog version file[[
File:localwebcatalog.cpp
Line:197
Location:
saw.catalog.local.checkforcatalogupgrade
saw.catalog.local.loadCatalog
saw.subsystems.catalogbootstrapper.loadcatalog
saw.webextensionbase.init
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:40.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [ERROR:1] [] [saw.catalog.local.loadCatalog] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Error initializing/loading existing Catalog: C:\Enterprise Reporting\Main\Source\Catalog\vertafore_catalog.
Could not find the catalog version file[[
File:localwebcatalog.cpp
Line:326
Location:
saw.catalog.local.loadCatalog
saw.subsystems.catalogbootstrapper.loadcatalog
saw.webextensionbase.init
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:40.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [NOTIFICATION:1] [] [saw.sawserver] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Oracle BI Presentation Services are shutting down.[[
File:sawserver.cpp
Line:713
Location:
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.terminatesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:44.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [NOTIFICATION:1] [] [saw.sawserver] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Oracle BI Presentation Services (OBIPS) 11.1.1.6.2 (Build 120604.0813 BP1 64-bit) are starting up.[[
File:sawserver.cpp
Line:455
Location:
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:44.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [WARNING:1] [] [saw.webextensionbase.init.workstationCheck] [ecid: ] [tid: ] WARNING: The Oracle BI Presentation Services server is running on a workstation class machine (Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Professional etc.). The number of concurrent users may be severely limited by the operating system.[[
File:webextensionbase.cpp
Line:483
Location:
saw.webextensionbase.init.workstationCheck
saw.webextensionbase.init
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:44.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [ERROR:1] [] [saw.catalog.local.checkforcatalogupgrade] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Could not find the catalog version file[[
File:localwebcatalog.cpp
Line:197
Location:
saw.catalog.local.checkforcatalogupgrade
saw.catalog.local.loadCatalog
saw.subsystems.catalogbootstrapper.loadcatalog
saw.webextensionbase.init
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:44.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [ERROR:1] [] [saw.catalog.local.loadCatalog] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Error initializing/loading existing Catalog: C:\Enterprise Reporting\Main\Source\Catalog\vertafore_catalog.
Could not find the catalog version file[[
File:localwebcatalog.cpp
Line:326
Location:
saw.catalog.local.loadCatalog
saw.subsystems.catalogbootstrapper.loadcatalog
saw.webextensionbase.init
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.initializesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
[2013-06-26T06:45:44.000-07:00] [OBIPS] [NOTIFICATION:1] [] [saw.sawserver] [ecid: ] [tid: ] Oracle BI Presentation Services are shutting down.[[
File:sawserver.cpp
Line:713
Location:
saw.sawserver
saw.sawserver.terminatesawserver
saw.sawserver
ecid:
Thanks,
VJ

Below the url to download
OBIEE Patch 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 is available for download from Oracle Support site (http://support.oracle.com or http://supporthtml.oracle.com ).
If it helps mark as correct.
Thanks

Presentation service users

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