there is a mismatch .,11.1.1.9 (catalog Manager on desktop on problematic desktop) vs 11.1.1.7 (server). I cannot find the Catalog Manager exe for 11.1.1.7 ? Do you have the link?

nothing .. simple install.

What URL did you enter in the connection screen? http://servername:9704/analytics/saw.dll user : weblogic password: xxxxxx What's the URL you use in your browser to connect to OBIEE from the host on which you have the issue with Catalog Manager? http://servername:9704/analytics

the guid thing made sense to me .. as ODI has the same way of keeping things ..

yeah .. but believe me I am getting hold of things ..I'm from EPM and weblogic background .. and these things which we are talking here are very specific to obiee .. have you heard of on-the-job-learning

Thanks .. so back to my question .. so if I'm doing through Catalog Manager(GUI) .. shall I do with copy and paste way or archive and unarchive way and shall I do for all the there folder Shared/system/users as a whole?

This is 11g I'm talking about .. so lets not complicate and mix the things by bringing 12c. I appreciate.

Thanks .. so doing through Catalog Manager (GUI) is same as doing through runcat commands? Am i right?

Chris .. what I learned is that there are couple of ways to move the catalog from one env to another .. 1) manual copy the Catalog folder as a whole and paste in the target 2)Catalog manager .. open one catalog manager and connect to source catalog , you will then see 3 folders shared, system and users and you copy them…

I think I got it .. BI Publisher supports the following catalog types: Oracle BI Publisher - File System The Oracle BI Publisher file system option is for installations of BI Publisher that are not integrated with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Oracle BI EE Catalog If you install BI Publisher with the…

yes . that's goes without saying.

thanks.

crawlersys.lck? should tthis be copied?

and .lck ?

Thanks .one more thing.. while we copy the catalog do we need to copy the .lck file as well? Can we copy the catalog and rpd from source server while system is up? I mean hot copy.

Thanks .. so this is after we bring in rpd and catalog and done with their deployments??

Thank you Sherry ,.,that was really useful.

Thanks .. this is one and last shot move .. let me explain things .. the source env is single node and we decided to move to brand new env which is active-active set-up - 2 servers and each has all the obiee components running . rpd and catalog locations are on a shared path accessible to both. there are only 3…

Thanks Chris.. what the solution? I have these in mind what I read from other blogs Option 1: delete the users folder and users.atr and then restart the BI services to see if it fix the problem. Option2: Open the catalog in Offline mode in Catalog Manager and then give the weblogic user Full permission . option 3: Again do…

thanks..this means.. "/ users / YOURUSERNAME / yourcontent" where is this location?