moving from OBIEE 12.2.1.3 to OAS 5.9

User_INLWQ

Hi Gurus,

We are currently on OBIEE 12.2.1.3 which is on windows server. Planning to move to OAS 5.9 (chose OAS to reside on Red Hat Linux 7).

1. Should we still upgrade OBIEE to 12.2.1.4 and then migrate to OAS ? (came across this step in Oracle documentation, so asking) OR can we install OAS 5.9 on linux and then run export bundle utility and deploy RPD, catalog of OBIEE 12.2.1.3 in OAS ?
2. Would you recommend this entire migration to be an in-place or out of place
3. Also in OBIEE, we are on third party security (Novell), in OAS chose to be on AD, so should we manually reconfigure entire security ?

Thanks in advance..

[Deleted User]

ad 1.) You can migrate from 12.2.1.3 as well. No need to go to .4. You don't necessarily need to use the bundle with all the settings. See #2 below

ad 2.) Out of place. Get rid of as much of legacy garbage as you can.

ad 3.) Yes. Manually do the security provider integration on OAS.

Gianni Ceresa

As extension to what Christian said, 2. isn't even a question.

You are changing OS, this means it can't be an in-place migration.

If you make sure to install your OAS 5.9 as clean as possible, from there on you could hope to do in-place migrations (except if future releases of OAS massively change all the components they depends on and therefore you have no option anymore).

In general if the question in-place or out-of-place come on the table, the answer better be out-of-place because it means there are things to clean. Otherwise you wouldn't even bother considering an out-of-place if you believe your environment can be updated in-place.

For 3. there is no security that can be moved automatically with an out-of-place, only an in-place could preserve the security setup in Weblogic, but not only you can't do an in-place, but you are also changing the whole security provider, so here again it has to be done manually.

User_INLWQ

Thanks Chris.

User_INLWQ

Thanks Gianni, that's really helpful.