Log files for Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) 11g version.

Using Enterprise Manager

You can check the different log files in the Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) 11g version.
The right way to check them is using the Enterprise Manager (EM) Console page but you can also review the files directly on the hard disk.

a) EM Console. Login to the URL

http://server.domain:7001/em

and navigate to:

Farm_bifoundation_domain-Business Intelligence-coreapplications-Diagnostics-Log Messages

These are all the available files:

Presentation Services Log
Server Log
Scheduler Log
JavaHost Log
Cluster Controller Log
Action Services Log
Security Services Log
Administrator Services Log

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To check the files directly, you can use the following:

1) Admin Server logs.

AdminServer-diagnostic.log

Directory:
$MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/servers/AdminServer/logs
or
$DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/logs

2) Managed Server log
bi_server1-diagnostic.log

Directory:
$MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/servers/bi_server1/logs
or
$DOMAIN_HOME/servers/bi_server1/logs/

3) Node Manager log files

WL_HOME/common/nodemanager

Example:

D:\OBIEE11G\wlserver_10.3\common\nodemanager
4) BI Componets logs file are under:
$MIDDLEWARE_HOME/instances/instance1/diagnostics
5) OPMN: Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server

All files under the directory:

$MIDDLEWARE_HOME/instances/instanceX/diagnostics/logs/OPMN/opmn
or
$ORACLE_INSTANCE/diagnostics/logs/OPMN/opmn


6) Enterprise Manager Log
emoms.trc

Directory:
$MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/servers/sysman/log
or
$DOMAIN_HOME/servers/sysman/log

Where are OBIEE Logfiles?

This applies to OBIEE 11G logfiles.

When it comes to hunting down the source of a problem in OBIEE it is a good idea to go through the logfiles to see where an error has occurred. There are a number of OBIEE logfiles, with each component generating it own set.

Assuming that You have installed OBIEE with a middleware home of D:\OBIEE11G then

• the Administration Server has logfiles in: D:\OBIEE11G\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\AdminServer\logs\AdminServer-diagnostic.log
• the Managed Server has logfiles in: D:\OBIEE11G\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\bi_server1\logs\bi_server1-diagnostic.log
• the BI Component logs are in: D:\OBIEE11G\instances\instance1\diagnositc\logs\*
• the OPMN logs are in: D:\OBIEE11G\instances\instance1\diagnositc\logs\OPMN\opmn\*
• the Enterprise Manager logs is in: D:\OBIEE11G\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\sysman\log\emoms.trc

It may be worth putting a shortcut to these files / directories on your desktop.

Also helpful is wintail which allows you to view a logfile and all the writes being made to it without the constraints of notepad etc...

If you have configured windows services for AdminServer and bi_server1 under beasvc, then hopefully you configured them with a logfile. The logfiles from the services help in guiding you to any problems as they are the record of what you would normally see when starting OBIEE manually.

Until next time.