OBIEE Catalog Replication

Usually catalog can be migrated between the environments but if we have a scenario where u want to replicate the catalog between env then u can follow this:

Why i choose replication?

I have server 1 which is supposed to be used exclusively for analysis and have server 2 which was exclusively for just running Dashboards(wired thought of clients). I would have used the same catalog shared between the servers but i choose to replication services. The Replication Agent (whose file name is sawrepaj) is a utility that performs common replication tasks such as copying, exporting, importing, and marking for replication.


Configuring Replication:

cd $ORACLE_HOME\bifoundation\web\bin

Step 1:
create a config file for replication:
lets save this config file as   $OracleHome\bifoundation\web\bin\config.xml

<Config>
      <General>
         <ExportDirectory>\\host1\shared</ExportDirectory>
         <LogExpiresHours>48</LogExpiresHours>
      </General>
      <Server name="1" user="<admin1user>" pwd="<admin1password>">
        <Property name= "oracle.bi.presentation.url"
        value ="http://host1.com:<port>/analytics/saw.dll"/>
        <Property name="oracle.bi.presentation.usesoaptcptransport" value="N"/>
      </Server>
      
      <Server name="2" user="admin2user" pwd="admin2password">
      <Property name="oracle.bi.presentation.sawservers"
        value ="localhost:10712"/>
      <Property name="oracle.bi.presentation.usesoaptcptransport" value="Y"/>
      </Server>

      <Folderset name="all">
         <Folder>/</Folder>
      </Folderset>

      <ReplicationTask destination="2" source="1" folders="all" />
   </Config>

Step 2: 

Enable Replication in the instanceconfig

<Catalog>
  <Replication>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <ReadLogRecordsSinceHoursAgo>120</ReadLogRecordsSinceHoursAgo>
    <RecordsInFileLimit>4000</RecordsInFileLimit>
  </Replication>
</Catalog> 

Step 3:


I just want to replicate everything in config.xml file  so i run it as

sawrepaj $OracleHome\bifoundation\web\bin run