OBIEE 11g : Creating Node Manager as Windows Service

As we all know OBIEE runs on Weblogic server which was introduced by Oracle along with OBIEE 11g Version, so its pretty obvious that before we start OBIEE components we have to make sure Weblogic is running or the BI components wont start.

We have a sequence in which the components have to be started which are taken care in windows servers with a single click , Thanks to Start BI Services Icon. however we have a sequence lets look into it.

1) Weblogic Server as its the Host for all components

2) Node Manager(It is by default windows service in Enterprise Installation of OBIEE 11G)

3) Managed Servers(Comes with Enterprise Installation of OBIEE 11G) 

4) BI System Components ( BI Server, Presentation Services, Java Host, Cluster Controller, Scheduler etc..)

Lets see how can we deploy the Node Manager as Windows Service.

Step 1: 

Find and edit the nodemanager.properties file in the below location. 

[ORACLE_HOME]\wlserver_10.3\common\nodemanager

Find the below parameters CrashRecoveryEnabled and StartScriptEnabled change them to true as shown.

Step 2:

Now go to the below location [ORACLE_HOME]\wlserver_10.3\server\bin and run the file installNodeMgrSvc.cmd  which should create a windows service with name as below

                Oracle WebLogic NodeManager (PATH_TO_DOMAIN)

the same can be seen in the image.