Oracle has released much awaited Unifier 21.12 version on 21st Dec for its on-premise customers. The 21 series has major change to User Interface experience, giving a new look and feel to product. Also it brings it closer to other Primavera products from UI/UX point of view.
Detailed list of what’s new in this version can be found at this link
Apache Log4j is most common logging library being used by applications written in Java. CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability is classified as severe and allows unauthenticated remote code execution access to the applications which are using this library.Oracle has released security alert advisory for this and listed out impacted application in its document 2827611.1
As per Oracle document following Primavera products are impacted
Primavera Gateway
version 17.12.0.0 – 17.12.11.0
version 18.8.0.0 – 18.8.13.0
version 19.12.0.0 – 19.12.12.0
version 20.12.0.0 – 20.12.7.1
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
version 19.12 – 19.12.17.0
version 20.12 – 20.12.9.0
Primavera P6 Professional Project Management
version 19.12 – 19.12.17.0
version 20.12 – 20.12.9.0
Primavera Unifier
version 18.8.0.0 – 18.8.18.0
version 19.12.0.0 – 19.12.16.0
version 20.12.0.0 – 20.12.11.0
Primavera Analytics
version 18.8.0.0 – 18.8.13.0
version 19.12.0.0 – 19.12.12.0
version 20.12.0.0 – 20.12.9.0
If you are using any of above version please ensure to follow Oracle documents and apply the workaround and as soon as patch set is available apply that to secure your applications.
I have seen some cases where users face following error while starting Unifier application.
Connecting to Unifier database…
Server Version: 16.1.0.0 b-02282016-09
Fail to initialize server_lock.
Fail to initialize server_lock.
Exception in thread “Unifier Startup” java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.Exception: Fail to initialize server_lock.
This error comes because of insufficient privileges granted to Unifier Database user. In order to resolve this, perform following steps:
grant connect, resource, create table, create view to unifier ;
commit;
grant unlimited tablespace to unifier;
commit;
In previous Post we have created BI Platform and MDS schema. Now we will continue with our OBIEE installation.
Before proceeding make sure you have all installation files downloaded.
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This series of blog post describes the installation steps for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise edition (OBIEE) and BI Publisher for Unifier and Primavera P6.
Before installation make sure that following pre-requisite are present
If you are getting below error while installing Project Control zip file then follow steps as mentioned in this blog post.
ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded
To resolve the issue first connect to database with sys user as SYSDBA role.
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In previous post we have completed Weblogic setup now we will install Primavera application.
After you have downloaded installation files as shown is Part 1 of this blog series, run setup.exe file present at below location.
<download location>\V77744-01\P6_152\Disk1\install
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In this post we will see how to install Weblogic 12.1.3.0.0 for hosting Primavera applications.
Once installer is downloaded as shown is previous post, run it using following command
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This series of blog post describes the installation steps for following Primavera applications
Before installation make sure that following pre-requisite are present
Primavera World 