Restarting BI Publisher server

In order to restart your BI Publisher server you'll have to navigate to the directory where you installed that server i.e. /u01/app/oracle/product/ etc... once your there you can check the status of all the services which are running with ./opmnctl status. Now to stop all services you type ./opmnctl stopall and once it is finsihed executing you type ./opmnctl startall. All done!

Notepad++ and XMLTools Setup

I had a need to check an XML file at work and was looking for a tool. I found out that notepad++ can do this but it requires you to install the xml tools plugin which is not included by default. I looked around for a while and eventually found directions to set this up but think it should not have been this hard to typing this up in hopes that it helps someone in need.

• Download notepad++ and install it.
• Go to resources from the notepad++ website and check the directory of plugins available for it or click here plugin directory.
• Download the XML Tools plugin and follow the directions on the directory page for installing it.
• Now you should be able to see the XML Tools in the Plugins menu of notepad++.  If you click the "How to Use" link in the menu you will be promoted that your missing libxml/libxslt and you need to download it. It also provides links but this is where I got confused because the links, one does not work and the other does not have the correct files or at least I was unable to figure them out.
• Now you need to download a file called ext_lib.zip and unzip it. You need to put the unzipped .dll files in the root directory of notepad++ which should be something like "C:\Program Files\Notepad++".
• Restart notepad++ and you'll be able to see the full menu. 
• Enjoy!

This post is not written to take credit away from anyone. I am not the creator or developer of any of the above tools. I just wrote this for my self and if this helps someone else, good.