OBIEE 12c : Horizontal Scaling - Command Clone_bi_machine.cmd Fails at Pack Jar File Stage with Erro

Question

On Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) V 12.2.1.3.0 While Performing Horizontal Scaling, the Clone command "Clone_bi_machine.cmd" is failing at pack Jar file stage with error : Argument(s) "domain c:\mwhome\bi\bin\..\..\user_projects\domains\bi" not supported. Error: Call to InternalAPI.createBISystemComponent returned successfully... Apr 08, 2018 11:34:30 PM oracle.security.audit.Auditor init WARNING: IAU:IAU-6012: Unable to determine the audit log directory. No log direc tory specified. Creating SSL certificates for new machine Logging to: c:\mwhome\bi\bin\..\..\user_projects\domains\bi\bilogs\sslcommand.log Internal SSL is not enabled, so not rebinding channel certificates. Creating pack file Error: Argument(s) "domain c:\mwhome\bi\bin\..\..\user_projects\domains\bi" not supported. Usage: run pack.cmd or pack.sh with the following parameters: -domain - -template - -template_name - [-template_author - ] [-template_desc - ] [-managed - ] [-log - ] [-log_priority - ] [-help - ] Error: Could not create C:\pack_1.jar Press any key to continue . . . Can someone please suggest how to resolve this error?

Kanthi Kommana · Answer

Solution below worked for me (as provided by Oracle Support):

clone_bi_machine.cmd in the Path : <Oracle Home>\bi\modules\oracle.bi.sysman\syscomp needs to be edited as below:

Changes in the file:

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1) BEFORE:- CALL %ORACLE_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin\wlst.cmd %ORACLE_HOME%\bi\modules\oracle.bi.sysman\syscomp\cloneBIMachine.py %DOMAIN_HOME% %listenAddress% %machineName%

AFTER :- CALL %ORACLE_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin\wlst.cmd %ORACLE_HOME%\bi\modules\oracle.bi.sysman\syscomp\cloneBIMachine.py "%DOMAIN_HOME%" %listenAddress% "%machineName%"

2) BEFORE:- CALL %ORACLE_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin\pack.cmd "-domain=%DOMAIN_HOME%" "-template=%packFile%" -template_name=pack_file -managed=true

AFTER :- CALL %ORACLE_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin\pack.cmd -domain="%DOMAIN_HOME%" -template="%packFile%" -template_name=pack_file -managed=true

3) BEFORE:- echo %ORACLE_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin\unpack.cmd -domain="%DOMAIN_HOME%" -template=%packFile%

AFTER:- echo %ORACLE_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin\unpack.cmd -domain="%DOMAIN_HOME%" -template="%packFile%"

Copy paste may not work. Ensure you type it correctly.

Attached the file for convenience. Rename as .CMD file from .TXT.

Hope this helps.

Kanthi Kommana · Answer

There was a document published by Oracle sometime last year, it is taken offline recently. Yes, I created an SR and they are saying the document taken offline and currently it is for internal research only.

I am waiting for a solution from them. My thoughts: we may to change one of the scripts as it is unable to pass/receive proper arguments.

Robert Angel · Answer

Fairly certain you don't recall incorrectly, I too have battle scars from trying to get this to work, and agree totally an SR is the best way to go.