When we starting BI services for OBIEE 11g always the services will prompt for Admin username and password. To avoid/fix this prompt we have a workaround as follows.
Create a boot.properties file for the Administration Server and BI server. This file enables the Servers to start without prompting you for the administrator username and password.
1. Go to the following directory:
<Middleware_HOME>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domains/servers
/AdminServer/security
2. In this directory, create a file called boot.properties using a text editor and enter the following lines in the file:
username=Admin_Username
password=Admin_Password
3. Save the file and close the editor. (Make sure that the extension of the file should be boot.properties not boot.properties.txt)
4. Place the same boot.properties in following driectory too to start BI server without asking username and password.
<Middleware_HOME>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domains/servers
/bi_server1/security/
Note:
When you start the Administration Server, the username and password entries in the file get encrypted. For security reasons, you want to minimize the time the entries in the file are left unencrypted. After you edit the file, you should start the server as soon as possible so that the entries get encrypted.
Thanks.
Shiva
OBIEE by Shiva Molabanti 
Max
September 17, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Please advice. I did create these two files and place to the directory you instructed. It still ask admin user name nad password when I start BI from start-program-Oracle Business Intelligence-Start BI services.
How exactly boot. properties content looks like?
Like this or I have to replace my own user name and password on either side of equal sign. Thanks.
username=Admin_Username
password=Admin_Password
sarat
September 23, 2010 at 10:38 am
Hi Siva,
do you have any step wise procedure to install obiee11g on 32 bit machine?
Pls post it if you already have one.
Thx.,
Sarat
Mallesh
October 13, 2010 at 2:52 pm
HI Siva,
Are you sure about this? I have tried(Created 2 boot.properties files one under AdminServer/security
folder and another under bi_server1/security ) and still it is asking for the credentials before starting BI Services. Did you do it in windows environment, in Linux it is working fine as I have tested there too..
Thanks,
Mallesh
Umar Farooque
January 23, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I follow the same steps but still facing the same problem. Any update about this.
Michael Fischer
February 20, 2015 at 3:05 pm
Does the file nm_password.properties exist in the directory
/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domains/config/nodemanager/ ?
That’s the third password file in our OBIEE 11g Installation, with the same syntax as the boot.properties files. Also crypted after first use.