Enterprise Manager 13c – Disable the BI Publisher

The BI Publisher will be started automatically during the startup process of the Enterprise Manager 13c. You don’t like the BI Publisher or you don’t use it? Save the resources, speed up your startup process, disable it. The password of the database repository owner SYSMAN is required.

Verify the Status – the BI Publisher is up and running

[oracle@solothurn ~]$ export OMS_HOME=/u00/app/oracle/product/oms13cr1
[oracle@solothurn ~]$ $OMS_HOME/bin/emctl status oms
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 1
Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
WebTier is Up
Oracle Management Server is Up
JVMD Engine is Up
BI Publisher Server is Up

Disable the BI Publisher

[oracle@solothurn ~]$ $OMS_HOME/bin/emctl config oms -disable_bip
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 1
Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Enter Enterprise Manager Root (SYSMAN) Password :
Stopping BI Publisher Server...
BI Publisher Server Successfully Stopped
BI Publisher Server is Down
BI Publisher has been disabled on this host and will not be started with the 'emctl start oms' or 'emctl start oms -bip_only' commands.
Overall result of operations: SUCCESS

Verify the Status again

If you want to enable the BI Publisher again, the command is listed below the emctl output.

[oracle@solothurn ~]$ $OMS_HOME/bin/emctl status oms
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 1
Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
WebTier is Up
Oracle Management Server is Up
JVMD Engine is Up
BI Publisher Server is Down
BI Publisher is disabled, to enable BI Publisher on this host, use the 'emctl config oms -enable_bip' command

Timing

I have tested the start of the Oracle Enterprise Manager in my local virtual machine environment (VMWare Workstation,15GB Memory, 4 Cores, SSD) with and without the BI Publisher. The difference:

BI Publisher enabled – 4 Minutes and 18 Seconds

[oracle@solothurn ~]$ time $OMS_HOME/bin/emctl start oms
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 1
Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Starting Oracle Management Server...
WebTier Successfully Started
Oracle Management Server Successfully Started
Oracle Management Server is Up
JVMD Engine is Up
Starting BI Publisher Server ...
BI Publisher Server Successfully Started
BI Publisher Server is Up

real    4m18.322s
user    0m21.835s
sys     0m2.206s

BI Publisher disabled – 3 Minutes and 6 Seconds

[oracle@solothurn ~]$ time $OMS_HOME/bin/emctl start oms
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 1
Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Starting Oracle Management Server...
WebTier Successfully Started
Oracle Management Server Successfully Started
Oracle Management Server is Up
JVMD Engine is Up

real    3m6.834s
user    0m11.907s
sys     0m1.323s

Link to the Oracle Documentation

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E63000_01/EMUPG/upgrading_oms.htm#CIHGBAJE

Summary

If you don’t use it – disable it.