How to start the system…
Oracle Business Intelligence runs within Oracle WebLogic Server, and therefore Oracle WebLogic Administration Server must be started before Oracle Business Intelligence components can be started and maintained.
To start the Oracle Business Intelligence system, you start:
The following conditions must be met to start the Oracle Business Intelligence system:
Start the Start BI Service shortcut which start then the command:
MiddelwareHome\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIApplication\coreapplication\StartStopServices.cmd start_all.
It will prompt you for the WLS admin user.
The letter case of the WebLogic admin user and password are important
This script start then:
Bringing up this service may take a few minutes depending on your environment, wait until the command line stops scrolling and indicates server in RUNNING mode.
Keep this command window up to keep server up.
A standard output is:
Buildfile: StartStopServices.xml
get.credentials:
[input] Please enter the username of a WebLogic admin user:
weblogic
Please enter the password for WebLogic user weblogic:
wls.admin.start:
[echo] Starting WLS Admin Server at E:\MiddelwareHome\wlserver_10.3...
wls.alive:
wls.wait.alive:
[echo] --> Weblogic Admin Server running: Admin console available at http:/
/WINDOWS11G:7001/console...
wls.mgd.start:
[echo] Starting WLS Managed Server bi_server1 ...
wls.mgd.alive:
wls.mgd.wait.alive:
[echo] --> WLS Managed Server is running: available at WINDOWS11G:9704...
opmn.start:
[echo] Waiting for OPMN managed services to start...
[echo] OPMN has been started.
show_url:
[echo] Oracle BI should now be available at http://WINDOWS11G:9704/analytics
At the end of the process, a browser must launch with the analytic url: http://host:port/analytics
See this article on how to install the windows services: OBIEE 11G - BI Services as Windows Services Installation
You can use the Oracle BI Systems Management API start and stop Oracle Business Intelligence using:
See Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence Using the Oracle BI Systems Management API for examples
From Enterprise Manager
If you change the Admin Server or Managed Server port numbers after you finish installing Oracle Business Intelligence on a Windows operating system, you must also update their values in the StartStopServices.cmd file.
To change port number settings in StartStopServices.cmd file after making post installation Admin Server or Managed Server port number changes on Windows operating systems:
INSTANCE\bifoundation\OracleBIApplication\coreapplication
set wls.admin.port=7002
set wls.mgd.port=9705
Error 500--Internal Server Error
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
This error can occur because the server are not immediately up and full running in memory when you start the script.
<19-feb-2011 4:19:17 uur PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000360> <Server started in RUNNING mode>