Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Get Help To Configuration Agent & Mail For OBIEE

4i Apps Consumer Reviews This blog takes you through the steps to configure agents to trigger a mail from Analytics Page with content of Analysis or Dashboard. This is a feature that many customer will like or generally ask for.
Configure Email Settings
Step1
Login to fusion Middleware Control Enterprise manager using Admin user credentials.
 Step 2
Navigate to Mail tab
(Business intelligence > Core Application > Deployment > Mail)
 Click Lock and Edit configuration to changes to be made.
 Step 3
 Complete the Element with the following information.
1.SMTP Server – SMTP Server of your email.
2.Port – Port of the SMTP Server.
3.Display Name of the Sender – Any Name.
4.Email Address of the Sender – Sender’s email Address.
5.User Name – Same as the senders email Address
6.Password – Password of Your email.
7.Confirm Password – Confirm the password as above.
8.Number of retries upon failure – any Number.
9.Maximum recipients.
10.Addressing Method To,Blind copy Recipient (Bcc) – If you want to receive a Bcc
Select it.
11.Click Apply then activate Changes.
·        Restart the Services.

Creating An Agent to Send Mails
Step1
Login to OBIEE Analytics Page.
Step 2
Click new in the Global Header and then select Agent in the Actionable Intelligence.
Step 3

In the Schedule tab and then select once in the Frequency list box.
Step 4

In the Content tab select the content you want to deliver by clicking the browsebutton.
And choose the format you want from the list.
Step 5
In the Recipients tab, add emails whom do you want to receive a mail with delivery content.
Step 6
If it runs successfully recipients will get a mail with the delivery content in the Format you chosen.
Issues Faced :
[nQSError: 75027] Failed to open connection to SMTP Server
Solution :
Make sure that the server IP and host entries are configured correctly in both Mail server and BI server.
[nQSError: 75005] Failed to send AUTH command.
Solution :
If the user name and password are specified in the scheduler configuration, log in to
Enterprise Manager and navigate to: Weblogic Domain
Right click on bifoundation_domain > Security > Credentials
Expandoracle.bi.enterprise
Remove the mail.server Key from the list .

Restart the services.

Monday, February 1, 2016

4i Apps Reviews: A few Tech Definitions Made Easy

4i Apps Reviews With the help of this blog, we would like to make a few technical definitions clear for the lovers of technology.
1.       Cloud Computing

The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.

2.         Business Intelligence

The process of converting raw data into meaningful business insights to make a better decision

3.       Machine Learning

The process or a field of study where, the computer algorithm’s study and mimic human behaviour and improve over the period of time

4.       Cognitive Computing

Cognitive computing is the simulation of human thought processes in a computerized model. Cognitive computing involves self-learning systems that use data mining, pattern recognition and natural language processing to mimic the way the human brain works

5.       Virtual Reality

VR is an environment created by virtual reality software to mimic the real world on a computer using human sight and sound. You can see these in a museum now-a-days to explain the feature of a monument

4i is happy to be a part of this technological revolution and partner with our customers across the world on implementing & managing enterprise resource planning, building large data warehouses to mine the data for business intelligence, provide data curation services, perform advanced analytics and implement cloud based services, provide management consulting from a strategy point of view, building scorecard applications, develop and deploy enterprise standard mobile application and analytical solution and implement enterprise wide performance management systems