Technology Blueprints & Strategy with Gary Crisci

Ran into this issue a little while back and with HFM 11.1.2.4 it was a little tricky to figure out, so I thought it was worth posting. Problem Smartview users get a pop-up when connecting to HFM provider that there is a newer version of Smartview and for them to upgrade. Many of our customers have stated they do not want users upgrading Smartview versions with each update and do not want Smartview to prompt them to do so. Solution The solution to this can be found in Oracle Knowledge Document  1993603.1 Please make sure you have a backup of your system before making any changes . As these options are now removed from the EPM configurator, the following steps can be followed to turn off the warning messages.  1. Log On to the shared services console.  2. Expand Application Groups>Foundation>Deployment Metadata  3. Financial Management> LWA-hfmadf  4. Select> Properties > right click 5. Export export to some local drive and ...

When troubleshooting an EPM issue, reviewing log files is an important step.  The following explains how to find EPM log files on the Exalytics T5 (Solaris) Step-by-step guide Connect to the host using a supported tool such as WinSCP, Filezilla, PuTTy, vSSH, etc. cd to the following directories Essbase server - cd  /u01/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/{host}/diagnostics/logs/essbase/essbase Essbase application - cd /u01/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/{host}/diagnostics/logs/essbase/essbase/app/{app} Essbase Studio - cd /u01/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/{host}/diagnostics/logs/EssbaseStudio HFM - cd /u01/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/{host}/diagnostics/logs/hfm Planning - cd /u01/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/{host}/diagnostics/logs/planning Weblogic - cd  /u01/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/domains/EPMSystem/servers/{JVM_name}/logs Install - cd  /u01/Oracle/Middleware/EPMSystem11R1/diagnostics/logs Opatch / Confi...