I needed a new BI playground environment within my in house environment so last week I tried to install the Business Intelligence Suite 12.2.1.3 on my Windows 10 PC. I installed the several components.
- Made sure I had the required Java JDK
- Oracle database 12c
- Oracle weblogic server 12c
- Oracle Business Intelligence 12c (i.e. OBIEE, BI Publisher, BI Mobile)
It went quite smoothly…Oracle database installed just fine and the application server Weblogic installed without any problems. Ran the RCU (Repository Creation Utility) to create the required schemas for Oracle BI like BIPLATFORM and ran the BI Configuration Assistant to create the BI domain and needed managed server (biserver1).
The first part of the BI configuration went without problems, ignoring the OS certification warning :-).
The BIDomain was created and the managed server (biserver1) was added. Everything fine and took another coffee…however one of the last steps failed. The Configuration Assistant tries to start your BI server which never ended….it simply didn’t start.
After investigation I noticed within the logging of Weblogic that the server was unable to start. A number of java.io.FileNotFoundException were mentioned and access denied messages on the cwallet.sso.lck file, residing in {DOMAIN}\config\fmwconfig\bootstrap.
In order to solve this, and being able to start the Weblogic server and BI managed servers with all the components, I simply removed the cwallet.sso.lck file. After that I was able to start everything without any issue. It seems that the BI Configuration Wizard did not remove that lock (lck) file or had no access to it. It might be caused by security settings within the Windows environment so also make sure that the cwallet.sso file within {DOMAIN}\config\fmwconfig\bootstrap has modify permissions for your user or make it part of the admin group for example.
If you have these kind of issues with starting your BI instance on Windows (10) it might be caused by the above. So, start BI and create your dashboard to analyse your groceries….
