OBIEE Vmbox setup

Question

Hello,

I have recently downloaded Vmbox setup for OBIEE 12c.

I changed setting of VM machine to setup port forwarding so I can access my VM from my browser on my host machine.

In settings-> adapter1, I am using NAT and following are the port forwarding rules I have put-

Name           Protocol           HostIP           HostPort          GuestIP           GuestPort

BD               TCP                 10.0.2.15       7180                                       7180

BD2             UDP                 10.0.2.15       7180                                       7180

BI                 TCP                 10.0.2.15       7780                                       7780

BI2               UDP                 10.0.2.15       7780                                       7780

VNC             TCP                 10.0.2.15       5902                                       5902

VNC2           UDP                 10.0.2.15       5902                                       5902

Here 10.0.2.15 is the IP of my VM machine.

My system is connected to my modem through a LAN cable.

From my local chrome browser I am giving the following URL to access VM - http://10.0.2.15:7780/analytics

But the error I get is ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT.

Can you please help how to resolve ?

Secondly, when I start BI services in my VM, it asks for Weblogic username and password for which I am entering the default values-

Weblogic Username: weblogic

Weblogic Password: Admin123

But I receive an error as in following image-

Can you please help me know where I am going wrong so I can successfully start weblogic server and do port forwarding.

Thanks in advance.

Gianni Ceresa · Answer

You apparently didn't do a normal install but unselected a bunch of things when installing VirtualBox as it's complaining you don't have the driver for the host-only interface.

I suppose you also can't create one in the Network Manager?

3645190 · Answer

Hello,

I took Vmbox 5.2.6.

Yes I have sampleApp v607.

Tried setting up host network but it throws an E_FAIL error.

Attaching screenshot. Any idea what could be wrong ?

Gianni Ceresa · Answer

Hi,

What VM did you took? You have the SampleApp v607 ?

Honestly you can make your life a lot easier (without port forwarding etc.) by adding a second network adapter using the "host-only" option.

In that way your access the VM by the host-only network without requiring any port forwarding at all. Often the host-only has a 192.168.56.x address, so you just need to find the IP your VM got (virtualbox run a DHCP for the host-only) and make sure you don't have a firewall inside the VM.

The error you get on starting OBIEE inside the VM sounds a bit like if your VM has networking issues, so even the alias "demo.us.oracle.com" which point to the VM ip address doesn't seem to work fine.

Once you setup the second adapter as host-only you can maybe switch the first network adapter to bridged instead of NAT, which will make your VM also accessible to other hosts in your local network if needed.