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Copyright 2014 Doug Fiedler, Edgewater Ranzal

Oracle EPM Troubleshooting& Infrastructure Best

Practices

Doug FiedlerPrincipal Infrastructure Architect


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Focus

ServicesPeople

Methodology

Customers

Partnership

15 Years

700+ clients

1000+ projects

About Edgewater Ranzal


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We offer a full spectrum of EPM/BI ServicesDashboards & Scorecards, Financial Analytics& Reporting, Operational Analytics, What-if

Analysis, Query & Reporting, Visual ExplorationFinancial performance, Legal,Segment & Mgmt Reporting, Financial Close

HFM Optimization, Performance LabSOX Compliance Support

Strategic Finance, Planning, Budgeting,Forecasting, Workforce Planning,Capital Planning, Project FinancialPlanning

Data Integration, Financial Data

Management, Data Warehousing,Master Data Management &DRM,

ETL Services, Automation

Project/Program Mgmt, EPMRoad Maps, ApplicationReviews, BusinessRequirements, ProcessChange, Documentation

Installation, Upgrades,Migration, System

Monitoring, Backup andRecovery, Disaster Recovery,

Load Testing, HardwareSizing, Exalytics

Benchmarking

Consolidation

BusinessIntelligence

EnterprisePlanning

Infrastructure

Training &Support Services

ProjectManagement

DataServices

Costing &Profitability

Mgmt

Support Services Infrastructure &Application Support Contracts

Key Teach Course Delivery: Planning, Essbase,Financial Reporting, Smart View, HPCM, HFM, FDM,

DRM, OBIEECustom Training Delivery: Process & Reporting

HPCM Standard & DetailedModels, Waterfall Allocations,Activity Based Costing, Customer,Product & LOB Profitability


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v11.1.2.3

V11.1.2.2

V11.1.2.1

V11.1.1.4/3 or earlier

What version of EPM are you running today?


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Monitoring your EPM environment with OEM

EPM log utilitiesziplogs, log analysis, validation

ResetConfigTask - revert a product back to an un-configured state

Maintenance & Housekeeping - common logs to

rotate/archive

When to apply PSUs

Virtualizationwhen it works and when it doesnt

Agenda


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What is OEM? OEM stands for Oracle Enterprise Manager,it is used to manage many Oracle products includingOracle RDBMS, OBIEE & EPM. It can be used to monitorperformance, monitor system health, restart services andmany other useful features.

Out of the box it only plugs into the weblogic JVMs but itis possible to add non JVM applications like Essbase.

Upgrade to OEM 12c and check out doc -http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/epm11123-oem12c-monitor-1955582.pdf

Monitoring your EPM environment with OEM


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To get to the OEM login

screen you must first start the

weblogic admin server inforeground

This can be added as a

windows service -

https://support.oracle.com/ep

mos/faces/DocumentDisplay?

id=1060058.1
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Here you have access to all

weblogic deployments on the

current wls domain

Green for jvms that are up, red for

down



Shows system health

JVM Performance

Response & Load times



Start/stop services View logs

Setup security



Log Analysis Utility

Located in

\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\bin\loganalysis.bat

Collects data from all log EPM log files, allowssearching by key word and/or window of time

EPM log utilities



\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\diagnostics\

reports\LogAnalysis_Report_2013_10_24_17_58_15.html


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\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\bin\validate.bat

Checks to make sure that the environment is workingproperly and produces the following report

Validation Tool



\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\

bin\registry-cleanup.bat

If you see errors pertaining to the EPM registry,after viewing the validation report, they can be

fixed by running the registry-cleanup tool.

It is also helpful to remove a server from your

environment in order to clean it out of the

registry.

Registry-cleanup


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Provides information on what has been configured, # of

CPUs/Ram by server, OS, Database/JDBC etc.

Deployment Report


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Generates an html report of all registry keys

Registry Report


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What does it do?

It allows you to redo a config task

Why would you want to do this?

When a task fails or you need to changesomething

First run a registry report D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\

bin\epmsys_registry.bat or epmsys_registry.sh

ResetConfigTask


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Here we can see that Planning has beenconfigured and it was successful

If it had failed it would say failed instead ofconfigured


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To reconfigure run the following command:

resetConfigTask.bat -product Planning -task

applicationServerDeployment

When you go back into the configtool you will now see

that the Planning deployment will have gone from green

to yellow (unconfigured)

You can do this with any epm configuration task


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Backups - Nightly File system (d:\oracle , /app/oracle)

Database (SQL, Oracle)

LCM exports

Log file archiving Essbase.log & app logs can be archived with the

AGTMAXLOGFILESIZE & APPMAXLOGFILESIZE commands within

the essbase.cfg HFM & .odl (oracle diagnostic logging) log files should be archived

manually as needed when they reach a size that is too big to open

with windows tools

If you have a log essbase.log file that cant be opened in windows you

can view it in EAS and view by date/time as well

Maintenance & Housekeeping


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HFM Purge task & data audit quarterly

Miscellaneous Always monitor disk space, especially on the Essbase server. If the

disk becomes full Essbase will become corrupted.


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PSUs tend to come out quarterly

PSU = Patch Set Update

PSE = Patch Set Exception

PSEs come out all the time, they are usually

created because of defects specific to a certain

customers environment I recommend applying PSUs quarterly

When to apply Patches


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I only recommend applying PSEs if the issue

listed in the defects fixed readme is an issue

that you are experiencing To find out what the latest EPM patches are go

to the following url:

https://supporthtml.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1400559.1


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Oracles official policy on Virtualization

The following KB article is Oracles official stance on virtualizing the

Oracle EPM Product stack.

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NO

T&doctype=HOWTO&id=588303.1

Additional information

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/SearchDocDisplay?_adf.ct

rl-state=1854yc0wrq_9&_afrLoop=14354592882224

In a Nut Shell

Oracle will support VMWare and Microsofts Hyper-V technologies,but they do not certify them. What this means is that if Oracle

cannot fix an issue they can refer you to the hosting provider for

further troubleshooting, or force you to physicalize the servers and

reproduce the issue. However, Oracle does certify their products

running on Oracles Virtualization Manager (OVM).

Virtualization


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Advantages Reduced hardware costs (ability to consolidate servers)

Much quicker to stand up a VM vs a physical server

If the hypervisor fails, technologies like vmotion allow you to moveyour VM/s to another host, this is also very helpful in DR situations

CPU, disk & memory can be added and removed as needed

Disadvantages

You can over assign resources (CPU, memory) and this can causeperformance issues when multiple VM guests need the resources at

the same time

Certain products run better than others when virtualized: weblogic

JVMs run well while Essbase & HFM may have a performance loss

during intense calculations

Virtualization


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Allocate resources statically : RAM and vCPUs

Dont let the VM Host Servers manage resources on

the fly, use reservations Dont over subscribe your Virtual host servers

Utilize dedicated VM Host servers for EPM when

possible

Test, Test, Test and then Test again. If you have a testtool like Load Runner ever better

Have performance issues? We have VMware Certified

Engineers who can find & fix your VM bottlenecks

VirtualizationWhats important to know


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Physical Depending on the

application, the followingservers should perform

better on Physical

hardware

HFM application Server

(Consolidations) Essbase Server

(Calculations)

Integration Server (Data

Mapping and Loads)

Virtual Foundation and Web

Servers DRM Server

HSF Server

All servers can be virtual,

really depends on the

application

HFM Application Server

Essbase Server

Integration Server


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