For Planning and Essbase learners, first things first, dont expect it run good on a 32 bit, 4 GB RAM laptop. Essbase Server and EAS will work just fine. Beginners who want to make their hands dirty with Planning on their basic laptops might want to install the good old 11.1.1.X.
While things have improved drastically on installation front, the new EPM system demands some good configuration server (as always). A basic installation including EPMA, CALC Manager, Planning, Essbase Server and EAS consumes around 5 gigs of RAM that too when no user except the admin is logged in.
This might tempt people to go for a 8 gb RAM, 64 bit dual core machine just to try it out. The best part is installation works smoothly but start creating a classic application on that and you will come to know your investment has gone wrong yet again. It works, but its slow.
Read the documentation carefully and just incase you want to learn Planning, I suggest you have two machines, one which hosts Essbase Server and EAS and the other hosting Planning.
Now, you will find most of those new features of EPM 11.1.2.2 all over the net, I will put down a few things I noticed while installing
- Unzipping the first 7 folders will suffice for basic installation of EPMA, CALC Manager, Planning, Essbase Server and EAS, but wont have OHS.
- No 'Install by tier' option, have to be clever enough to understand installation components now :)
- EPM instance name need not be different on different machines, use the same one
- If OHS is not used, you can deploy everything using the inbuilt Weblogic server on port 9000 and have one service for everything, real PITA for stopping individual services
- If IIS is used, it deploys everything on port 80 by default
- Import_export folder location specified on runtime, can be a shared folder on remote machine too
- Admin name can be changed, so it wont conflict with your company's active directory
Some important things
IIS component is needed for EPMA and make sure have it enabled and running or installation wont proceed.
How to do it ?
Go to Control Panel->Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features On or Off (on the left panel)
a window will open, in that search for 'Internet Information Services' and check it. You might want to check 'Microsoft .NET Framework' too just in case. This will start IIS, check if it is running by searching IIS in Start button -> search for programs and files, if it working you will be able to see IIS console and Website folder in it
The most important thing is to run the installer and configurator as Administrator, I had a bad experience where I missed it and got an error 'Service failed to deploy' while configuration, result ? uninstalling it failed, had to format the drive again.
To summarize, the installation and configuration is quite smooth now, and its easy to understand for novice too. The Web 2.0 thing is good to use in Workspace and Planning, the buttons and 'dockability' of some components are cool. The scrollable things scroll smoothly and dont feel as if there is some rust in the scroll bar. The overall feel is easy on the eyes, great going Oracle !!
Inside Story Though not confirmed yet, the configuration will undergo minor changes in upcoming 11.1.2.2 patch where you wont have to run the configurator again and again for seperate databases for each components. Like you select Foundation, Planning and Essbase while configuring and it will prompt you for new database schema for each component. Lets wait and watch !! Sorry I am too lazy to post some snapshots here, why dont you try it out yourself ?? ;) Cheers !!
While things have improved drastically on installation front, the new EPM system demands some good configuration server (as always). A basic installation including EPMA, CALC Manager, Planning, Essbase Server and EAS consumes around 5 gigs of RAM that too when no user except the admin is logged in.
This might tempt people to go for a 8 gb RAM, 64 bit dual core machine just to try it out. The best part is installation works smoothly but start creating a classic application on that and you will come to know your investment has gone wrong yet again. It works, but its slow.
Read the documentation carefully and just incase you want to learn Planning, I suggest you have two machines, one which hosts Essbase Server and EAS and the other hosting Planning.
Now, you will find most of those new features of EPM 11.1.2.2 all over the net, I will put down a few things I noticed while installing
- Unzipping the first 7 folders will suffice for basic installation of EPMA, CALC Manager, Planning, Essbase Server and EAS, but wont have OHS.
- No 'Install by tier' option, have to be clever enough to understand installation components now :)
- EPM instance name need not be different on different machines, use the same one
- If OHS is not used, you can deploy everything using the inbuilt Weblogic server on port 9000 and have one service for everything, real PITA for stopping individual services
- If IIS is used, it deploys everything on port 80 by default
- Import_export folder location specified on runtime, can be a shared folder on remote machine too
- Admin name can be changed, so it wont conflict with your company's active directory
Some important things
IIS component is needed for EPMA and make sure have it enabled and running or installation wont proceed.
How to do it ?
Go to Control Panel->Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features On or Off (on the left panel)
a window will open, in that search for 'Internet Information Services' and check it. You might want to check 'Microsoft .NET Framework' too just in case. This will start IIS, check if it is running by searching IIS in Start button -> search for programs and files, if it working you will be able to see IIS console and Website folder in it
The most important thing is to run the installer and configurator as Administrator, I had a bad experience where I missed it and got an error 'Service failed to deploy' while configuration, result ? uninstalling it failed, had to format the drive again.
To summarize, the installation and configuration is quite smooth now, and its easy to understand for novice too. The Web 2.0 thing is good to use in Workspace and Planning, the buttons and 'dockability' of some components are cool. The scrollable things scroll smoothly and dont feel as if there is some rust in the scroll bar. The overall feel is easy on the eyes, great going Oracle !!
Inside Story Though not confirmed yet, the configuration will undergo minor changes in upcoming 11.1.2.2 patch where you wont have to run the configurator again and again for seperate databases for each components. Like you select Foundation, Planning and Essbase while configuring and it will prompt you for new database schema for each component. Lets wait and watch !! Sorry I am too lazy to post some snapshots here, why dont you try it out yourself ?? ;) Cheers !!
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