Does anyone use an automated script to deploy a new RPD?

Jerry S.

When we deploy a new RPD to our Production environment, we need to do it during a maintenance

window that is from 5am to 7am.

We are toying with the idea of having some type of script that can be set up ahead of time, and then scheduled.

Does anyone out there do something like this?

Gianni Ceresa

Hi,

You missed a key element ....

What version of OBIEE are you using?

12c deploy the RPD by script, so it will probably take you 45 seconds to automate that ....

For 11g there are scripts around using WLST to deploy a new RPD.

But it's all about your version ....

rmoff

I always recommend automated deployments to clients that I work with. Whether it's to avoid getting up at 0400 in the morning for out-of-hours, or simply to make life easier -and reduce the human error from manual deploys- it's a Good Thing to do.

As @Gianni Ceresa says, WLST in 11g (example script), or the native 12c scripts.

Updating config in the RPD (different DSN, hopefully different credentials too for connecting to the DB) is easily done with patching the RPD with pre-prepared XML patch files, applied with biserverxmlexec.

Jerry S.

Version is 11.1.1.7
running on Linux server.

Gianni Ceresa

Look at the link rmoff posted