Essbase 11.1.1 Installation Tutorial
E-mail: timtow@appliedolap.com
Tim Tow
Oracle ACE Director
Applied OLAP, Inc
Essbase 11.1.1 Installation Tutorial
Tim Tow, President and Oracle ACE Director
Applied OLAP, Inc
September 10, 2008 (revised October 23, 2008)
In a recent blog post, I expressed my dedication to installing Essbase 11.1.1 and, I figured that while I
was installing it, I should document the steps to help others visualize how to do it. Some people who
may be reading this may have never installed Essbase, so I will go into a lot of detail. Those of you who
have installed Essbase a number of times may not need all of this detail and so you may want to skim
through parts of this document. That being said, this is the first version shipped with the new Oracle
Installer and is just different enough that a tutorial may be necessary.
Before you can start the install, you will need to download the files necessary for the install. To get the
files, go to http://edelivery.oracle.com and select the ‘Oracle Enterprise Performance Management
System’. For this tutorial, I downloaded and am installing the 32-bit version on my own primary laptop.
Once you have the necessary files downloaded, start by creating a temporary work directory. On my
system, I created a directory named C:\Temp\EPM 11.1.1 Install. Once you have done that, unzip the
System Installer (V13452-01.zip) into the work directory. Here is what it looked like when I unzipped the
file on my machine:
Essbase 11.1.1 Installation Tutorial
E-mail: timtow@appliedolap.com
Tim Tow
Oracle ACE Director
Applied OLAP, Inc
Next, repeat the process with the 3 Foundation Services zip files into the same directory. Those zip files
are:
• V13449-01.zip
• V13450-01.zip
• V13494-01.zip
Finally, do the same process for the Essbase Server and Client zip files. Those zip files are:
• V13454-01.zip
• V13453-01.zip
As you unzip each of these files, what is happening ‘behind the scenes’ is that xml files are bein