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OBIEE - How to configure the Mail server of Scheduler/Delivers

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Table of Contents About Articles Related The smtp parameters Secure or no secure stmp Verify your smtp parameters The mail scheduler configuration windows Setting you email in your account The result Support Bad Credential STARTTLS not supported

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This article talk about the configuration of the smtp mail server of Oracle BI Scheduler. To set up the smtp server, you must enter at least this information as : the sender address the smtp server the smtp port

To be able to save an Ibot, you must have performed the initial configuration.

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The smtp parameters

Secure or no secure stmp
When you want to set up the smtp server for a computer which move from one network to a another, the smtp server must be a secure SMTP. Why ? Because to fight against SPAM, you are often only permitted to send a mail against a non secure SMTP from your network. For instance, : the smtp of your internet home supplier if you are at home the smtp of your internet company supplier if you are in your company If you don't know your secure smtp port, a simple search on Google will give you all this details or best, you can go on your provider website. Example on my provider web site : http://www.xs4all.nl/helpdesk/email/instellingen/ Search on google : Smtp Ssl Aol Smtp Ssl Orange

Verify your smtp parameters

We will use this parameters for this article : smtp server : smtp.xs4all.nl port TLS : 587 Login : login Password : password Sender : nicolas.gerard@newfrontiers.com It is the smtp parameters of my company but my laptop is at home. Before we continue, you must verify your smtp parameters with telnet for instance : SMTP - How to verify your connection and parameters (TSL/SSL) with TELNET ?

The mail scheduler configuration windows

The smtp parameters must be fill in the Mail tab of the scheduler configuration windows : open the administration tool in the menu : Manage / Job the job Manager open then Menu / file configuration option / Mail

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Enter your parameters. Save them and restart the Oracle BI Scheduler Service.

Setting you email in your account

In Oracle BI Presentation Service, click on the link Setting and select my account In the device part, click on the link Add Email Device and enter your email.

The result
Create then an Ibot : choose minimum Me as recipient (recipients tab) select in the destination tab Email. I have scheduled the period to period comparison lag report with an excel attachment.

Support
If you have a problem, you can find normally the log in the directory :
OracleBI_Home\server\Log\iBots

This location is configured in the IBot tab :

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You have two types of files : the log file with a log extension the error file with a err extension

Bad Credential
You can find the reason of a failure as :
+++ ThreadID: c80 : 2009-04-26 14:34:04.125 iBotID: /users/administrator/_iBots/lag [nQSError: 75005] Failed to send AUTH command. 5.7.0 authentication failed

STARTTLS not supported

If you try with Google which require to use a STARTTLS mechanism, you can see that Oracle BI Scheduler don't support it.
+++ ThreadID: 1044 : 2009-05-02 21:13:29.594 iBotID: /users/administrator/_iBots/lag [nQSError: 75005] Failed to send AUTH command. No supported authentication mechanism found C:\Documents and Settings\Nicolas>telnet smtp.gmail.com 587 220 mx.google.com ESMTP 10sm8014744eyd.42 ehlo nico 250-mx.google.com at your service, [83.83.223.119] 250-SIZE 35651584 250-8BITMIME 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250 PIPELINING AUTH LOGIN 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. 10sm8014744eyd.42 .....

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dat/obiee/scheduler_mail_configuration.txt Last modified: 2010/04/29 09:24 by gerardnico

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