Document:: Migrating Essbase Application Using LCM Utility
Document:: Migrating Essbase Application Using LCM Utility
Document:: Migrating Essbase Application Using LCM Utility
Description:
This document will guide you through the step by step process of
Migrating Essbase Application from one environment to another. It is
focused on how to migrate one Essbase Application to another Essbase
Application and Essbase Application to file system and vice versa.
History:
Version Description Author Publish Date
Change
0.1 Initial Draft Gaurav Shrivastava 07-Feb-2011
0.1 Review 1 Amit Sharma 18th Mar 2011
3. Backed up artifact……………………………………………………….….13
6. Log File……………………………………………………………………………27
7. Appendix ………………………………………………………………………..32
In Essbase one of most attractive features of version 11 is Life Cycle Management. The LCM
makes your life easier by collecting all migration activities using one single wizard based
approach using LCM. You can perform LCM tasks through shared service.
Essbase Artifacts
1. Definitions of all databases within the applications
2. Outlines
3. Substitution Variables
4. Rule Files
5. Calculation Scripts
6. Report Scripts
7. Excel Files
8. Location Aliases
9. Security Filters
Step #1 Open shared services and select Essbase in application then open source
application.
Step #2
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Select all artifacts and click “Define Migration”.
“Bisp” is my source application and target application is “MDemo”.
Step #3
Step #4
Step #5
Step #6
You can go for “Launch Migration Status Report” and see the status.
Launched Migration Report
This is the Essbase application and database. We will perform LCM operations.
Step #2
Step #3
Open “Bisp” application and select database with all artifacts. These are the all artifacts of
the BispBD database.
Rule files
Step #5
Select the destination for migration; you can simply migrate to any application or into file
system. One backup file is created in this example.
Click Next………
Step #7
Step #8
You can launch migration status report by clicking on “Launch Migration Status
Report”………………..
Step #9
Validate
You can see that application is successfully migrated in to file system. One new file created
in the file system; it has all migrated artifacts.
All backup files are in XML format. You can move all this files in other environment; were
ever you want.
Calc Script
Excel Files
Report Scripts
Rule Files
Security Files
Text Files
Listing.xml
Listing file save the entire folder detailed information. This file consists of all resource
name, folder id, path, pathAlias, modifiedBy, lastUpdated and description about each folder.
Whatever file or folder generated during complete process.
sourceInfo.xml
All backup of artifacts is stored in the “BispBackup” file. Select all artifacts to recover
application from file system to Essbase application.
Step #12
Step #13
Step #14
Step #15
Validate
You can cross check the all files are migrated in to new application. This folder shows
migrated files.
You can create one migration check list, and check the status after migration.
One log file creates during migrating application artifacts using LCM utility.
LCM.log
This file keeps all information about source and destination. All
Users performing Lifecycle Management operations for Essbase must be assigned the
following roles::
1. LCM Administrator
2. Server Access
3. Calc
4. Database Manager
Lifecycle Management for Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management, Fusion
Edition are listed in the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management
System Installation and Configuration Troubleshooting Guide
The sample migration definition files provided are for Financial Management Classic application
migrations. The product code used in the migration definition files for Financial Management is HFM and the
sample application is COMMA. All sample migration definition files are provided in LCM_HOME/samples.