Monday, August 2, 2010

Essbase Windows 7 Installation Issue - Resolution

One of my sons worked with a partner last week who was having problems installing 64-bit Essbase on 64-bit Windows 7.  It took a little bit to get the issues ironed out, but here is a summary of what happened.  Hopefully this post will prevent similar problems for you.

On the initial installation, the partner tried to install Oracle EPM System without using UAC (a/k/a right click, Run as Administrator) to run the installtool.bat.  This caused the installation to be incomplete and the subsequent configuration thus failed.

To try to fix the installation, the first thing that was attempted was an uninstall.   The uninstallation appears to complete successfully, but on the subsequent reinstall, not all of the components, specifically the http server, were not enabled for selection.  Of course, this did not look right, so upon further investigation, it was found that the uninstaller did not remove the dirty folder C:\Oracle\Middleware.   We manually removed the C:\Oracle\Middleware directory, which was improperly installed in the first place, and then installation/configuration completed without a problem.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Tim,

In one of your blogs you had mentioned that you'll come up with a table revealing that which Hyperion components gets installed on Windows 7 (64 bit), and which doesn't. Please let me know whether you have posted such table in any of your blogs. If possible, do share the link for the same.

Secondly, I would also like to know that on which 64 bit Windows 7 version (Home, Premium or Ultimate) should we do the Hyperion 11.x.x.x installation, as we have these three Win 7 versions available in India.

Thanks & Regards,
Amit.

Tim Tow said...

Sorry, I haven't prepared or published a table with that information.

Tim

Anonymous said...

Dear Tim,

I was actually awaiting a reply on my second point; i.e.

Which 64 bit Windows 7 version (Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate) should we do the Hyperion 11.x.x.x installation, as we have these Win 7 versions available in India.

Thanks & Regards,
Amit.

Tim Tow said...

I am running Win 7 Ultimate..

Luis said...

Great blog.
I hope you can help me...

1) How do I get a msgbox to tell me the current Display Messages selection in the Excel add-in options Call EssVSetGlobalOption(???, False)



Thanks in advance,

Luis