Hyperion Administration

- Aisvarya Rajagopalan
 Agenda

• Overview of EPM System

• Hyperion Architecture
• System requirements
• Hyperion sample distributed environment
• Installation and configuration of Hyperion components
• Validating the instance configuration
• Services Orchestration
• Log file Analysis
• Shared services Security – User configuration and provisioning
 EPM System Overview

• Help organizations plan, budget, forecast, and report on business

performance
• Consolidate and finalize financial results (often referred to as “closing the
books”)
• Primarily used by CFOs and the office of finance
• other functional areas, such as HR, sales, marketing, and IT, use EPM for
operational planning, budgeting, and reporting
 Hyperion
Architecture
 System Requirements
EPM System Server/Instance Processor Memory
Instance
Foundation FNDHOST1 4 core 10 GB

Planning PLANHOST1 4 core 6 GB

Essbase ESSHOST1 4 core 6 GB

Financial HFMHOST1 4 core 6 GB

Management
Profitability HPCMHOST1 4 core 6 GB

Strategic HSFHost1 4 core 6 GB

Finance
FDMEE FDMEEHOST1 4 core 6 GB
 Hyperion Sample Distributed Architecture

SERVER 1: SERVER 2: SERVER 3:

Foundation Services Hyperion Planning Essbase Server

Reporting & Analysis Services Analytic Provider Services Essbase Administration Services
OHS Web Server Calculation Manager
WebLogic Server

SERVER 4:

Oracle Database
 Repository Configuration

Database Roles and Privileges for Schema password should be set to

‘Never Expiry’
EPM System Accounts:
• CREATE ANY SYNONYM
• CREATE CLUSTER Schemas for EPM Configuration
• CREATE INDEXTYPE • Shared Services
• CREATE PROCEDURE • Hyperion Planning
• CREATE SEQUENCE • Calc Manager
• CREATE SESSION
• FDMEE
• CREATE TABLE
• Essbase
• CREATE TRIGGER
• CREATE TYPE
• EAS
• CREATE VIEW
• HFR
• DROP ANY SYNONYM
 Installation and Configuration of EPM
• Dedicated user with administrative privileges must be used
for installation
• Disable Anti-virus
• Disable User Access Control
Validating the instance configuration

• Validation report / instance report

• Deployment report / Registry report

EPM Environmental Variables

• MIDDLEWARE_HOME
• EPM_ORACLE_HOME
• INSTANCE_HOME
• DOMAIN_HOME
 Services Orchestration
• Using the start and stop scripts
• Using services.msc in windows server
• Using custom batch scripts for distributed environment
• Using WebLogic console
Log Analysis
• Starter logs
• Managed Server logs
• Essbase.log
• Application logs