Not so fast! There's a few things to take care of first!
Christmas Eve 2019 update: Stay tuned! New information has come in from Oracle and I will update this post after I finish a few plates of Christmas Day ham. First and foremost, Windows Server 2016 is NOT certified by Oracle for EPM 11.2 at this time. Please upgrade your sandboxes to Windows Server 2019. Use Oracle 12 or SQL Server 2016 as your RDBMS until further guidance.
January 2020 update: Oracle's feedback is posted here: EPM 11.2 Certification Matrix post
Look for the text in red font.
EPM 11.1.2.4 only worked up through MS Windows Server 2012 R2. EPM 11.2 works on 2016 and 2019. (My previous post about the 11.2 Certification Matrix mentions 2016 as a potential omission)
MS Windows Server 2012 R2 imposed some new changes that weren't a problem for us in 2008 R2. Server 2016 and 2019 present the same challenges, plus newer ones.
Before doing anything, change this Windows Registry key from 1 to 0 and reboot.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"EnableLUA"=dword:00000000
You will thank me later. If you find a few days later that the key's value reverted from 0 back to 1, contact your IT department and get an exception to Group Policy Update so your EPM servers are excluded from the change to this key.
Here's the classic symptoms this key is wrong:
- Pop-up message asking for permission to change something within a directory.
- You try to pick a folder for the Oracle eDelivery download helper, and it says your access is denied.
- You manage to try a deployment and notice a folder named "Oracle EPM System" in the root of your Hyperion/EPM drive.
Windows Firewall. Don't stop the service. Your Remote Desktop session will immediately be terminated and you'll need someone with console access to turn the service back on. Instead, go into the Windows Firewall settings and turn off notifications and blocking for Domain and Local network. Leave it turned on for Public network. Otherwise you will have to deal with a mess of individual port exceptions.
Windows Defender. Go into the Windows Defender panel and add on-access scanning exceptions for where you're downloading the software to, and where you're installing it to. Otherwise, look forward to a 20-30% performance degradation. Unlike 2012 and prior, you can't disable or stop this Windows service. There are also firewall settings in this service and you'll need to inspect and modify them.
Finally, was the install/config so bad that you need to blow away either user_projects or EPMSystem11R1? You may hit the "path too long" error Microsoft helpfully introduced. The poor man's solution is to install freely available 7-zip. Launch 7-zip, do File->Open and pick the parent folder. Then left-click the child folder to be deleted, and click Shift-Delete. This will blow it away without encountering the Microsoft error.
so, I haven't installed on prem in years. I think it was win 2013, but I would like to get a vm setup. I installed win19, download everything, and going through the installation. I am using SQL since I am more familiar with it. Every component configures but fails to deploy. There must be something I am missing for them all to fail. I am doing one at a time, each with a different DB on the relational side, any thoughts on what to look at?
ReplyDeleteYes! Something new was introduced in 11.2. An upcoming blog post will guide you through the process, step by step with screenshots. For now, ALL of your web deployments will fail. Delete user_projects\domains\EPMSystem as you will need to recreate the WebLogic domain from scratch and then the deployments will work after following my instructions. I hope to get this post up in the next 8 hours or so.
ReplyDeleteIt soudns like you're talking about the RCU curveball. The RCU was an interesting feature they added.
ReplyDeleteAlso for people who are using Oracle Databases you need the sys account and put it in the RCU config file.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Yes, that's exactly what I was referring to.
DeleteHi Dave, thanks to you I have been able to get 11.2 installed and running on a Windows vm. I'm able to get in via workspace and create a planning app, but when I run diagnostics, the provider services and eas console give a 'connection refused' error. This is my firt on-prem install ever, so am not sure where to look further. Windows defender is off. I got lost on the OHS and node manager references, I am using the embedded web server. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteHi Jon, glad to have helped you along a bit. :) Which 11.2 are you standing up? 11.2.0.0, 11.2.1.0 or 11.2.2.0? In 11.2.2.0 on Linux I hit a problem with Provider Services and had to mess with it. I'm now getting ready to attempt 11.2.2.0 on Windows and will soon know if APS has the same issue there. Haven't noticed a problem with EAS yet.
ReplyDeleteLet's focus on Provider Services (I'll abbreviate as APS from here on out). On the back end, you will look in two places.
1: Service start-up logs are in F:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\diagnostics\logs\services. Add this folder to your Favorites as you will go back to this folder frequently.
2: Web logs. F:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\EPMSystem\servers\AnalyticProviderServices0\logs. Add EPMSystem\servers to your Favorites as this is another place you will revisit again and again.
Gotta go. Fires are burning (day job!).
Thank you. Well workspace is 11.2.2. I see a reference to 11.2.0 for aps in the error I could find in the AnalyticProviderServices0.log on a startup:
Delete"Unable to set the activation state to true for the application "APS [Version=11.1.2.0]".
weblogic.application.ModuleException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to deploy/initialize the application as given archive is missing required standard webservice deployment decriptor."
The aps service is running and shows as available through the weblogic admin console. The AnalyticProviderServices0.log is now just pinging along every couple minutes with . I don't see anything happening in the logs relating to running the diagnostic, but happy to post anything. Is there a way to ping aps without smartview? I've been navigating to http://:13080/aps to see if it triggers anything in the logs, to no avail.
I found Doc ID 2096525.1 referring to a failed deployment of aps, and confirmed the deployment showed as 'failed' in the admin console, and so followed the instructions to re-install. I then restarted services. But same issue. In fact it seems all web services other than workspace refuse connection. Planning seems to be up or down depending on its mood.
DeleteI caught these errors on startup of services this time:
Test "SELECT 1" set up for pool "LocalSvcTblDataSource" failed with exception: "java.sql.SQLException: [FMWGEN][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]There is insufficient system memory in resource pool 'default' to run this query.".
Received exception while creating connection for pool "LocalSvcTblDataSource": [FMWGEN][SQLServer JDBC Driver]A problem occurred when attempting to contact the server (Server returned: Connection reset). Please ensure that the server parameters passed to the driver are correct and that the server is running. Also ensure that the maximum number of connections have not been exceeded for this server..
"Failed to deploy/initialize the application as given archive is missing required standard webservice deployment decriptor."
DeleteThis is the exact error I received in Linux. I believe Oracle packaged APS incorrectly in 11.2.2.0. In particular, this file: F:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\aps\AppServer\InstallableApps\Common\aps.ear. You will need to open an SR with Oracle as the fix I used is not available to you, unless you happened to grab the 11.2.1.0 installation media before Oracle removed it from eDelivery.
Ah. well I'm just doing this one for fun so I think I am stuck until they update. I guess I'll try in Linux!
DeleteHi Dave, getting the same error on APS like you've mentioned above.. any updates or solution to that you managed to find? .. many thanks
DeleteThanks.. apparently Oracle issued a KB on this.. https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?_afrLoop=380684222690929&parent=EXTERNAL_SEARCH&sourceId=PROBLEM&id=2693784.1&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=8nsik7cr9_155.. enjoy!!
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