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Get Oracle Business Intelligence source information

Get the values of the connection properties that you need to configure from the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Presentation Server administrator.
Note:
You don't need to create a connection object for
Oracle Business Intelligence
. You provide this information when you configure the catalog source.
The following table describes the properties that you need:
Property
Description
Version
Select the version of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Presentation Server from where you want to import metadata.
Select one of the following options to specify the version:
  • - Auto Detect. Select this option to let Metadata Command Center detect the version of Oracle Business Intelligence.
  • - OBIEE 10.x. Select this option if you use the Oracle Business Intelligence 10.x version.
  • - OBIEE 11.x. Select this option if you use the Oracle Business Intelligence 11.x or 12.x versions.
Server URL
The URL to connect to the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Presentation Server. Format is: http://<host name>:<port number>/analytics/saw.dll
If you use SSL, ensure that Metadata Command Center trusts the server certificate of the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Server.
Note:
If single sign-on is enabled for the user, replace analytics with analytics-ws in the server URL.
Format is: http://<host name>:<port number>/analytics-ws/saw.dll
Login User
The user name to access the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Presentation Server. Ensure that the user name you use has the necessary permissions to import metadata.
Login Password
The password associated with the user name.
Metadata File
The absolute path to the XML or UDML metadata file located on the Secure Agent machine.
Note:
  • - For Oracle Business Intelligence version 10.x, you must convert the RPD file to a Universal Database Markup Language (UDML) file.
  • - For Oracle Business Intelligence versions 11.x and 12.x, you must convert the RPD file to XML format. Metadata Command Center doesn't support the UDML file format for Oracle Business Intelligence 11.x and 12.x versions.
For information on how to convert RPD files to XML and UDML files, see .