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AdminTool.exe /command

Published Sep 8, 2009 by in Admintool, Hack, Obiee, Windows at https://rmoff.net/2009/09/08/admintool.exe-/command/

There’s an undocumented feature in AdminTool.exe that you can use the /command switch with a text file containing scripted commands to make changes to an RPD file (or create a new one).

It’s undocumented and UNSUPPORTED so be careful using it.

Some good details in these blog posts, especially Erik’s which has a good list of syntax.

  • Venkat
  • Erik Eckhardt (translated from Czech, original here)
  • @lex
  • Kumar Kambam

I’m intrigued to know how the original posters figured out the commands available, if it’s undocumented… :)

[update] Just discovered that CAF uses this functionality in order to Consistency Check the altered RPD that it can create: CAF uses commandline script: C:\OracleBI\server\bin\AdminTool /command C:\CAF_Training\Target\Consistency.config [sourcecode language=‘bash’] Open C:\CAF_Training\Target\paint.rpd Administrator Administrator Hide ConsistencyCheck C:\CAF_Training\Target\ConsistencyCheck.log Exit [/sourcecode] [/update]


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Robin Moffatt works on the DevRel team at Confluent. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

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