DAC email does not work as expected (Notification levels are ignored)

I have set up DAC to send emails to users (As per my previous entry- http://obieetips.blogspot.com/2010/02/dac-email-notification.html ), whenever the data load completes.
However, I have two problems.

1.
The email notifications do not work as expected.
Level 1 sends only failure emails but not success emails.
This is an open bug with oracle and the solution is to use Level 5 for the moment.
Level 5 works as expected- which is to send 'Running' as well as 'Failure'/'Success' emails, everytime an ETL load is started and completed.
This can be quite overwhelming for the users.
A bug already exists for this issue so we are eagerly awaiting a patch.
BUG:9133839 - DAC IGNORES NOTIFICATION LEVELS DEFINED FOR EMAIL RECIPIENTS

2.
The above email notifications are a bit too verbose for users who have limited time to check on the ETL status. Due to this I asked Oracle support if there was a way to change the email content so as to limit the amount of information to be sent over email to 'non-developers'. Unfortunately there is no way to modify the emails in version 10.1.3.4. It is part of the upcomign enhancements. I am looking forward to 11g.
ER is 7425308 / 8989562

Please let me know if you have any workarounds that we may be able to try or have any more updates on the latest from Oracle.

Thanks for reading,
Anisha

OBIEE Migration between Environments

We recently had to turn the production server over to the Admin team, which meant that we would lose most of our control over the server including the quick tricks we could use to migrate the RPD and reset all the passwords.

Ofcourse having 12 subject areas, connected to the same source through different connection pools added some complexity to this task.

Automating 'setting of passwords' the other properties of the connection pool can be done via a command line utility -

admintool.ext /command filename


On conducting some searches, I came across Kumar's blog which has a very detailed step by step process documented.

Here is the link:

http://obieeblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/simplifying-migration-process-%e2%80%93-changing-environment-specific-variables-in-rpd/


Anisha

DAC Email notification

DAC can be set up to send email in just a few steps.
This is also useful when you want to send only one success email from a number of infomatica workflows which are scheduled to run through DAC.
The DAC server has a built-in login-authentication based email (SMTP) client, which connects to any SMTP login-authenticating server to send emails.

Unlike informatica which needs the outlook client installed on the server, DAC does not.
1. Set up email recipients
2. configure email sender information



1. To set up email recepients:
Launch the DAC client.

Click Setup on the DAC toolbar, and then click the Email Recipients tab.
Click New.
In the Edit tab below, enter the relevant information for the recipient

Referenced Link:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12104_01/books/AnyInstAdm/AnyInstAdmWinInstall24.html
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10783_01/doc/bi.79/e10742/anyinstadmwininstall.htm#i1089967


2. To set up DAC to connect to the email server:
Select Tools --> DAC server setup
Select the tab: Email configuration
Enter the relevant information as the user  who the email should be sent from.
Click Send Test  Email

The email should be sent to the recipient.


Anisha