Firewall Ports and OBIEE 12c

Firewalls for OBIEE 12c

Firewalls are incredibly useful and alsy immensely frustrating, especially when you're in a large corporation and want to get things done. You have a new server sitting somewhere on the network and install (or try to) OBIEE only to discover that only you can see this machine as localhost and it is buried behind firewalls and varying levels of security.

Getting approval to open this machine up to be useful is bound to be a challenge.

Here's a list of the ports I have uncovered that I had opened enabling a multi node OBIEE install.

OBI System Components

9507: BI Presentation Services
9508: Cluster Controller
9509: Cluster Controller (monitor)
9510: Java Host
9511: Scheduler
9512: Scheduler (monitor)
9513: Scheduler (script)

Weblogic Components

9500: Admin Server (HTTP)
9501: Admin Server (HTTPS)
9504: Admin Server (Internal)
9502: Managed Server (HTTP)
9503: Managed Server (HTTPS)
9505: Managed Server (Internal)
9506: Node Manager

And don't forget 1521 - very important if you want to talk to your Oracle database.

OBIEE 12c Architecture vs 11g

Quite a lot has happened architecturally under the covers with the release of OBIEE 12c.

OBIEE 12c Architecture diagram

OBIEE 11g Architecture Diagram

There is one major difference...... OPMN is gone in OBIEE 12c.

OBIEE components are now started via a series of commands run from {DOMAIN_HOME}/bitools/bin

• start
• stop 
• status

and it is also possible to run the 'commands' to stop and start the components in (the new look) FMW Enterprise Manager.