Essbase Postconfiguration Tasks

The following table describes Essbase postconfiguration tasks.

Table 51.  Essbase Postconfiguration Tasks

TaskReference

If you are using SSL for Essbase, enable SSL.

Oracle recommends that you enable SSL for Essbase in a production environment.

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Maintenance Release Only

If you are applying the maintenance release to move from Essbase Release 11.1.2.0 to Release 11.1.2.1, you must import linked reporting objects from the earlier release.

Importing Linked Reporting Objects

(UNIX) Set User Limits on 64-bit AIX.

Setting User Limits on 64-bit AIX

If you set up an active-passive Essbase cluster using EPM System Configurator, perform additional steps to set up Essbase failover on both cluster nodes.

Setting Up Active-Passive Essbase Clusters

Enable clients to look up Essbase by cluster name instead of URL.

Enabling Client Lookup by Cluster Name
If you configured an additional instance of Essbase, edit opmn.xml for each additional instance to change the ports to unique ports.Modifying OPMN for an Additional Instance of Essbase

(UNIX) If you are using Oracle BI EE as the data source for Essbase, you must set additional environment variables for the Oracle BI EE driver before launching Essbase.

(UNIX) Configuring the Environment for Essbase and Oracle BI EE Integration

To designate a specific installation of JRE for use with Essbase, update the JVMMODULELOCATION setting in essbase.cfg.

Changing JVMModuleLocation (UNIX) or Changing JVMMODULELOCATION (Windows)

(Optional) EPM System Installer installs both 32-bit and 64-bit Essbase Server on a machine with a 64-bit operating system. You can configure Essbase to use the 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit machine.