OBIEE 12c : Changing the system component port numbers

One should be aware of the default ports used in OBIEE 12c, as soon as you install it.9514 for BI Server Component and 9507 for presentation server. This is because of the port range specified during the installation most of us will not have any problem with this. But sometimes when you have other instances with different versions of OBIEE or other applications installed in the same server as OBIEE 12c, there is a chance that we might have the port conflict.

My case, my other versions were all using 9031and 9033 for BI Server and Presentation Server respectively. So to get uniformity we were asked to change the OBIEE 12c ports as per the other OBIEE instances.

After a bit of digging on the Internet, I was able to find the process, which turns out to be pretty simple. Below are the steps

• Stop the component for which you want to change the port.

Stop.sh -I obis1

• Locate the file bienv-components.xml from below location 

Backup [DOMAIN_HOME]/config/fmwconfig/bienv/core/

• Change the port which you intended to my case it’s the BI Server component (obis1)

<component instanceId="obis1">
  <endpoint>
    <componentType>OBIS</componentType>
    <port>9031</port>
    <initialMachine>server.domain</initialMachine>
    <sslMode>shared</sslMode>
  </endpoint>
  <endpoint>
    <componentType>OBIS_MONITOR</componentType>
    <port>9591</port>
    <initialMachine>server.doimain/initialMachine>
    <sslMode>shared</sslMode>
   </endpoint>
</component>   

• Start the component using the below command

Start.sh –I obis1

• This doesn’t change the values in Enterprise manager yet, as to synchronize we will need a full restart of Admin server. Can perform the same using stop.sh and start.sh

Note: The port that you give in the file should be available for use at OS level else your service will fail.