The Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Cluster Deployment doc which I just found through Metalink highlighted a couple of points: - Report repository should be shared - The scheduler should be configured for a cluster Report Repository Through Admin>System Maintenance>Report Repository I changed the path from the default, /xmlp/XMLP to a NFS mount data/shared/xmlp and restarted the xmlpserver application in OAS. On coming back up Publisher complained because all its config files (in xmlp/Admin), had disappeared.

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In setting the scheduler in Publisher I discovered a useful difference in jdbc drivers. Our repository is on Oracle 11g. According to the manual oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver should be used, but previous installations have used oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver so I tried this too. In experimenting with both I found you get more useful feedback from the second one. Here’s the same problem reported by both drivers: · Exception [TOPLINK-4002] (Oracle TopLink - 11g Release 1 (11.

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I’m setting up a clustered OBIEE 10.1.3.4 production environment. There are four servers; two BI Server + Cluster Controller + Scheduler and two OAS + Presentation Services + Publisher. Clustering of BI is configured, now I’m setting up the other bits. Today is Publisher. On publisher instance A connections to the BI Servers directly work fine: jdbc:oraclebi://serverA.fqdn.company.net:9703/ jdbc:oraclebi://serverB.fqdn.company.net:9703/ both work individually as Connection Strings (with database driver class of oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver) - verified with “Test Connection” button.

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