Last night we decided to patch our OAC instance to the awaited 106 release for Essbase Cloud. There were actually 2 patches made available, one for Essbase Cloud and one for BI Cloud. I installed them consecutively (although you can run all patches at once since they hit different VM's - we haven't tried this … Continue reading OAC Series: Patching OAC
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OAC Series: Introduction to Access Rules
Access rules are a feature new to administrators in the world of PaaS. But what are they and why do you need to know about them? Are these new "rules files" for Essbase Cloud? (Nope.) Regardless of which area of OAC you're managing, you'll need to become familiar with access rules. If you are having … Continue reading OAC Series: Introduction to Access Rules
OAC Quick Tip: Manually Accessing Essbase Cloud Log Files
Please note that the following blog post contains temporary information. In patch 106 (released in mid-August 2017), Oracle added a feature to Essbase Cloud that allows customers to download their Essbase log files directly from the web interface. While troubleshooting the issue we hit last week (read the first part of that blog post here), … Continue reading OAC Quick Tip: Manually Accessing Essbase Cloud Log Files
OAC Quick Tip: Manually Restarting Essbase Cloud
Yesterday, our team encountered an unfortunate situation. Our OAC - Essbase Cloud environment started acting "funny." We were unable to create new applications nor start existing applications. Here is what some of those error messages looked like: This was the first time we've encountered this situation in our public GA environment, so a group of … Continue reading OAC Quick Tip: Manually Restarting Essbase Cloud
PBCS Quick Tip: 3 Settings for Administrator Happiness
This set of tips comes courtesy of seeing these overlooked settings several times over at clients. Included in this post are three generic PBCS settings that administrators can apply to nearly any PBCS environment and will go a long way for your happiness (and sanity). Note that these are not application specific settings, but basic … Continue reading PBCS Quick Tip: 3 Settings for Administrator Happiness
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