How To Reset Forgotten OBIEE 11G RPD PASSWD

To retrieve a forgotten OBIEE 11g repository (RPD) password: 1. Log into the WebLogic EM and navigate to the credentials store page. 2. Expand the "oracle.bi.enterprise" key map to view passwords for deployed repositories. 3. Use WLST commands to connect to the domain and run "listCred" to view the password for a specific repository key.

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How To Reset Forgotten OBIEE 11G RPD PASSWD

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How to reset forgotten OBIEE 11G RPD password?

In OBIEE 10g, If you forgot the repository (RPD) password, we can easily rest with simple straight configuration change (AUTHENTICATION_TYPE = BYPASS_NQS) in NQSConfig.ini file.This was a security breach in OBI 10g versions and it didnt have had fix for it. Fix? Why? Yes, as a developer we might still need such a (un)fair upshot. But it is a very dangerous security breach. If anyone gets the production RPD, he can simply bypass the rpd security and can deploy it to see the valuable data. As the OBI rpd doesnt require someone to know the production Database password, the information theft is quite possible. So unlike OBIEE 10G, The newer OBIEE 11G has a very tight security i.e. TWO level key authentication to open a RPD in online mode and one key (RPD password) in offline mode. Either of the modes cannot open the repository with some configuration changes. So be careful if you want to reuse the OBI repository, make sure that you have memorized the RPD password. There is NO any reset process. But however, you can get a password for an already deployed RPD. With the help of wlst script, you can get the forgotten OBI Repository password that is deployed earlier. To know forgotten OBIEE11G Repository (RPD) password: Login to weblogic EM (http://localhost:7001/em) and navigate to credentials store page.

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Expand the key map: oracle.bi.enterprise. This is the key map which stores all the repository passwords that are deployed.

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For the context of this blog post, I would like to show you how to know the forgotten password of a deployed repository. In above image, I have 4 repositories and one scheduler schema keys in my credential key map. From the list, to get the password of New_SampleAppLite_BI0002 repository, follow these steps:

Open command prompt, E:\>cd <OBIEE_HOME>\oracle_common\common\bin Run wlst scrpt: <OBIEE_HOME>\oracle_common\common\bin>wlst.cmd Connect to weblogic domain with the command: connect(<weblogic_AdminUser>,<weblogic_AdminUser_Password>,<Adminser ver_Hostname>:<Admin_Portno>) e.g: wls:/offline> connect(weblogic,weblogic123,localhost:7001)Connecting to t3://localhost:7001 with userid weblogic Successfully connected to Admin Server AdminServer that belongs to domain bifoundation_domain.

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Run listCred() command to get the password of New_SampleAppLite_BI0002 repository wls:/bifoundation_domain/serverConfig> listCred(oracle.bi.enterprise,repository.New_SampleAppLite_BI0002) Location changed to domainRuntime tree. This is a read-only tree with DomainMBean as the root. For more help, use help(domainRuntime) [Name : tempvalue, Description : null, expiry Date : null] PASSWORD:Admin321

Thats it, you can see the password: Admin321 for my New_SampleAppLite_BI0002 repository. You can even get other key values listed in other key maps to avoid any guess work.