OBIEE 11g Architecture Overview

OBIEE 11g Architecture Overview

Web Logic Server Domain:
J2EE App Server used across the board for all 11g BI applications Contains :
Managed Server : Set of J2EE Applications used for “Functioning” the BIEE system.
Admin Server : Set of J2EE Applications used for “Administering” of BI EE system.

Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN) domain:

Used to start/stop system components (BI Sever, BI Presentation Server, BI Scheduler, BI Cluster Control, BI Java Host). Can be accessed from CMD or from EM page (GUI)

The main configuration file for OPMN is opmn.xml.

Admin Server Components

WLS Admin Console:
• Admin GUI for WLS,Security and J2EE Components

 Fusion Middleware-EM Control (FMW EM):
• Admin GUI to Manage the BI Domain
• JMX Beans
• Java components that provide programmatic access for managing a BI domain.

Fusion Middleware-EM Control (FMW EM) – Is recommended approach for stop/start & to view system status.

Managed Server Components:

BI Plugin: Sends web http requests to BI Presentation Services
BI Security: Integrates BI Server and FMW sec platform (using web service calls)
BI Action Services: Dedicated web services for Action framework
BI Web Service SOA: Provides Web services for objects in the BIEE Presentation Catalog, to invoke analysis, agents, and conditions.
BI Office: Provides the integration between Oracle Business Intelligence and Microsoft Office products.
BI Publisher:  Handles the tasks of: Query Definition, Parameter Definition, Scheduling, Bursting, and Administration.

BIEE Domain System Components:
BI Server :
Provides capabilities to query and access data as well as services for accessing and managing the RPD file (BIEE Metadata).
BI Presentation Services:
Provides the framework and interface for the presentation of business intelligence data to Web clients. It maintains an Oracle BI Presentation Catalog service on the file system for the customization of this presentation framework.
BI Scheduler :
 Provides framework for scheduling and delivering reports to users (used by delivers)
BI Javahost :
Enables BI Presentation Services to support various components: Java tasks for BI Scheduler, BI Publisher, and Graph generation.
BI Cluster Controller:
Used for distributing requests to BI server and ensure load balancing
Files:
Repository file (e.g. SampleSales.rpd)
Config Files (nQconfig.ini, instanceconfig.xml,)
Log Files (nqserver.log, nqquery.log, nqscheduler.log, sawlog0.log etc)
Presentation catalog (<MW_HOME>\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\catalog)