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How to reset/change the Administrator password in

OBIEE, BI Publisher and BI Scheduler

June 2nd, 2009Leave a commentGo to comments

We would like to reset the Administrator password for:

i) OBIEE

ii) BI Publisher and

iii) BI Scheduler

Please provide a solution to perform a password reset.

Solution

The steps to perform this task are below.

The example solution begins by creating a BI Publisher superuser.

On both OBIEE and BI Publisher.

Start username/password: Administrator/Administrator

After username/password Administrator/admin3

BI Publisher superuser username/password admin2/admin2

After the test I also proved you could log into OBIEE and click on the preconfigured

Dashboard.

Please follow the exact steps below and create the same usernames and passwords to

start off with.

1. Take a backup copy of the

c:\OracleBI\xmlp\XMLP\Admin\Configuration\xmlp-server-config.xml

file.

2. Log into BI Publisher3. Select Admin > Security Center > Security Configuration

4. Enable a Local Superuser called: admin2 with the password admin2. Click

5. Restart oc4j

6. Sign into BI Publisher as admin2/admin2

This should log in successfully.

7. Log into OBIEE Admintool (Online) and change the Administrator password toadmintool.

8. Check in and save the changes.9. Log into OBIEE Answers as Administrator/admin3

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10. Change the Administrator password under the Security Model to admin3. Click

11. Restart oc4j

12. Login to BI Publisher as Administrator/admin3

This should log in successfully.

13. Log into OBIEE Answers as Administrator/admin3

14. Click on More Products > BI Publisher

15. This should go straight through to BI Publisher without prompting for a username

and password.

If the above method still fails attach your

c:\OracleBI\xmlp\XMLP\Admin\Configuration\xmlp-server-config.xml file for

comparison. I would expect the encrypted password strings to exactly match my

environment.

** BI Scheduler password **

This password can be changed in schconfig from the DOS/UNIX command line/shell.

C:\>schconfig

Copyright (c) 1997-2006 Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved

***** Delivers Configuration Menu *****

1Configure Scheduler

>>> Enter Choice: 1

***** Scheduler Configuration *****

1Database

2General

3Advanced

0Quit

>>> Enter Choice:

>>> Enter Choice: 2

***** Scheduler General Configuration *****10Administrator Name : Administrator

11Administrator Password : *****

0Quit

>>> Enter Choice: 10, then 11

0Quit

0Quit

0Quit

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Quit 3 times and restart all Analytics Services (to bring them back in syncrestarting

the BI Scheduler on its own also works, but Job Manager connections may exhibit stale

behaviour depending on what has been changed) .