How to check the disk Space in linux for OBIEE 11g

How to check the disk Space in linux for OBIEE 11g:-

Enter the command “df -h” in the putty prompt and check for your directory similar to the below example.

Size Used Avail Use%

99G   74G   21G  79% /app/oracle------------ (Check the free space of the OBIEE and ODI installed directory).

If the space is consumed too much then try to free the space by deleting the unnecessary logs like saw.log, nqquery.log,nqserver.log from instance directory and other server logs from UserProjects 

directory based on the time stamp of the log file. 

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Down grading the RPD OBIEE 11g

Down grading the RPD:-

In BI command Prompt(OBIEE Client) use the following command

nqgenoldverrpd -P Admin123 -I C:\RPD_old\FAPRD20140314_BI0002_May09.rpd -O C:\RPD_NEW \FAPRD20140314_BI0002_May09_latest.rpd -V 325 The above example is used to degrade the version of the RPD and remember we can't upgrade the RPD as there is no functionality that was provided with the OBIEE Client.

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Taking Backup of OBIEE RPD and Catalog in the Server

Taking Backup of OBIEE  RPD and Catalog in the Server:-

àConnect to Putty and Winscp of the environment that you choose to take backup.

àCopy the source path of the RPD and the catalog and the backup folder path as well in the winscp.

Now in the putty enter the command

“Scp –r "path of the RPD/repositoryname.rpd" "username for putty login"@hostname:"path of the backup folder"”

When entered it asks for the password, and then backup is done.

Follow similar steps for catalog backup as well by giving the catalog path till OBIEE_catalog example the directory sampleapplite..

EXAMPLE:- 

scp -r app/oracle/obidev/instances/instances1/bifoundation11g/oracleservercomponent/repository/sampleapplite.rpd oracle@localhost:app/oracle/backup

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