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How to change the default location of the Information Server Reporting workspace.

Technote (FAQ) Question How can I change the drive or path of the Reporting workspace directory to a different location than where Information Server creates it by default? Cause The Information Server Reporting workspace is used at run time for holding temporary status and information related to report generation. The amount of space required varies depending on the number, types and complexity of reports created. In some cases, the default location of the Reporting workspace does not have adequate space so it may be necessary to relocate to a different location. When the workspace is located in a tmp directory location, it could potentially be vulnerable to being deleted or files removed as part of some system administrator or user maintenance activity. To avoid this problem you may wish to change the default reporting workspace to a different directory. Answer The default reporting workspace location is dif...

Information Server Web Console error: Failed to Save Report

Technote (troubleshooting) Problem(Abstract) When creating and saving a report the Information Server Web Console is returning the error message "Failed to Save Report" Symptom Review the System.out log to look for the message: com.ascential.acs.reporting.ReportingEngineException: /tmp/informationServer/Reporting<machine_name>Node01server1/engine/JREPORT/realm/defaultRealm/dhtmlPreference.properties (No such file or directory) Cause The error occurs when the JReport workspace directory in the Information Server is deleted Diagnosing the problem Check to see if the JReport workspace exists For Information Server 8.1 the default directory is located under /<InformationServer_Install_Dir>/ASBServer/apps/Reporting/engine/JREPORT For Information Server 8.5 and later the default directory is located under /tmp/informationServer/Reporting<machine_name>Node01serve...

How to enable ssh root access on Ubuntu 14.04

​Set the password for root account and followed by below step.​ You also need to edit   /etc/ssh/sshd_config , and comment out the following line: PermitRootLogin without-password Just below it, add the following line: PermitRootLogin yes Then restart SSH: service ssh restart

Create a swap space using file in RHEL or Centos

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024 $ sudo mkswap /swapfile $ sudo chmod 600 /swapfile $ sudo swapon /swapfile $ sudo vim /etc/fstab Add this line to fstab: swap /swapfile swap defaults 0 0 ​

Installing compat-libstdc++-33 on RHEL 7 AWS EC2

You need to enable the RHEL optional and/or extras channels. yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional

log Files location in OBIEE 12c

File Locations: 11g: Upgrade log:  Middleware\Oracle_BI1\upgrade\logs Admin Server log files:  [MW_HOME]\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\AdminServer\logs Managed Server log files:  [MW_HOME]\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\bi_server1\logs BI Server log files: [MW_HOME]\instances\instance1\diagnostics\logs\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1 Presentation Server log file: [MW_HOME]\instances\instance1\diagnostics\logs\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1 12c: Upgrade log:  ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\bi\servers\obips1\logs Admin Server log files: ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\bi\servers Managed Server log files:  ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\bi\servers BI Server log files: ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\bi\servers\obis1\logs Presentation Server log file: ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\bi\servers\obips1\logs

Oracle 12c - need to start container AND pluggable databases automatically.

[oracle@rac1 lib]$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Thu Jun 27 14:47:35 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle.  All rights reserved. Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 1653518336 bytes Fixed Size                  2289016 bytes Variable Size             989856392 bytes Database Buffers          654311424 bytes Redo Buffers                7061504 bytes Database mounted. Database opened. But then we find that the Pluggable Databases (PDBs) are still in "MOUNTED" state, so we will need to open them before we can login. SQL> select name, open_mode from v$pdbs; NAME                           OPEN_MODE ------------------------------ ---------- PDB$SEED                       READ ONLY PDB1                           MOUNTED PDB2                           MOUNTED PDB3                           MOUNTED From CDB$ROOT we can manage ...