Business Objects on Unix

Hello,
We are running BO XI3.2 on Windows at the moment. I would like to get some feedback on some of your experiences, issues in running a BOE instance on Unix. Are there any stability issues on Unix. Every application (SAP and non-SAP) we have runs on Unix, except BO.
All feedbacks appreciated.
Arun

If you intend to integrate your user accounts with Active Directory or enable AD SSO then it's best to keep the CMS on windows, although alternative methods of using AD with the LDAP plugin are available on nix they are all lacking in various aspects/functionality. This is the only negative consideration I would mention on the unix side. If you don't plan on AD or AD SSO and your support staff is more nix orientated then you should be fine.
Regards,
Tim

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Business Objects in Unix environment

Can anyone explain to me what I am seeing when I submit this unix command on my Business Objects report server:
ps -ef | grep nikutst
I get several lines that show:
nikutst 23886 15890 0 Feb 25 ? 0:37 Xvfb :2 -screen 1 1024x768x24 -sp /opt/CA/SharedComponents/CommonReporting/bobj
There are about six of these lines at any given time. The only difference between each line is "Xvfb :1". Each line increments, such as "Xvfb :2", "Xvfb :3", "Xvfb :4", etc...
Anyone know what these are?

xvbf daemon is supporting interactive reporting processes used by BOE on UNIX.
what you see is normal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb

How to deploy business objects web services on tomcat

Hi everyone can anyone tell how i need to deploy business objects web services on tomcat, i installed business objects on unix server.what r the steps i need to follow in order to deploy web services on business objects. this web services must be called by a java program externally, that the reason i am deploying web services.
i downloaded business objects web services portal sample zip file. the wssdkj2eeportal directory is created with ant_scripts,src, dsws.config and wsportalassemblyscripts.bat.
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Hi,
You deploy all the web applications provided by BOE with the use of Wdeploy tool installed with BOE installation, for details please reffer the following document
[BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 Web Application Deployment Guide for UNIX*|http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000715844%26_SCENARIO=01100035870000000202]
Regards,
Ramu.
Edited by: Gowda Timma Ramu on Nov 9, 2010 8:39 PM

Business objects XI v3 under Unix (AIX or Linux) a bad idea?

Post Author: Ferry Harmusial
CA Forum: Deployment
Hello everybody,
We are planning to upgrade to Business Objects V3 with web-clients and the platform is not yet determined.
However, from a press release I understood that Linux support for Business Objects is relatively new (august 2005).
It has been suggested that Business Object support for Unix in general is not as good as Windows support.
I'm very interested to learn from your experience ....
Kind Regards,
Ferry H.

Just want to add to the original question that:
the directory (in the error stack from tomcat)
/apps/truecomp/BOXI31/bobje/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost is NOT even existing on the
AIX server which installed BO XI 3.1 SP2.
Would really appreciate any comments on this problem, especially from SAP support team.
We are really stuck here.
Thanks.

Business Objects 3.x Enterprise Sizing Guide for Unix

Anyone see or have heard about a 3.x sizing guide specific to Unix? The current 3x sizing guide claims it addresses Unix....but it does not.

I don't believe there's a Sizing Guide specific to Unix. I expect one is supposed to speak to Business Objects Consulting Services for this information.
If you have'nt already, you could check with your account rep.

To stop all scheduling in Business Objects 4.0

Hi
I just want to stop all the scheduled reports to run in Business Objects
Which process should i stop for it ?
Is it Adaptive Job Processor?
This is why i need it
We have migrated our BO from 3.1 to 4.0 in UNIX environment so its a prod parallel environment
and we are going to keep the old production environment running too for a week just to test the new one is fine or no.
But for 4.0 we have new prod environment and new CMS database
Next we are going to get all the data using BO Upgrade Tool
As Unix has complete upgrade it will get all the scheduling info too
Now i don't want the reports to run in our old production environment and new too
So which process should i stop which will only stop the Scheduling and wont impact other part.

Priyanka,
You need to STOP the Adaptive Job Server, this will STOP all scheduling jobs.
Regards,
Ajay

Business Object XI R2 and office 2007

Hi,
Does Business Object XI R2 SP3 (installed on unix server) is compatible with Office 2007 ?
I have checked the supported paltform documents and office 2007 is mentioned for Windows only and not mentioned in Linux/Solaries document.
I am trying to export data from a webi report to excel and when I export it in office 2007 it gives a warning "some data may have been deleted " and it export with some format missing. But wnem we export it in office 2003 its working fine

Hi Ravi,
Office 2007 is not officially tested with Business Object XI R2 SP3 on Linux environment.
Regards,
Shweta

How do I change the "Owner" of my Business Objects Reports

Here is my problem.
When we upgrade Business Objects we 'convert' a large number of reports to the BO XI rel2 version of the reports. During this convertion process all the reports were switched to be 'owned' by usercode 'Administrator'. Our users are now wanting to move/change/delete these reports and they can't because they are not the owner.
So we need to switch this owner. Problem is the only way we can find to do this is to copy the report to a new name and delete the old one. This is very time consuming. Also many of our users are not priviledged to delete reports that they don't own. Therefore our administrators are the only ones that can do the delete step.
It seems like I should be able to logon to the system as 'Administrator' and change the owner of the reports (similiar to doing a chown command in Unix) to whoever I want. There however doesn't appear to be a way to do that in Infoview or the Central Management Consule.
Is there a simple easy way to do this?? I have thousands of report to change.
Thanks Bart

It's possible via the Enterprise SDK, if you have a Java or .NET programmer.
Sincerely,
Ted Ueda

How to execute a java program in business objects

I am new to java world, we r passing parameters thru java program. The java program passes the parameters(like state) dynamically to crystal reports to generate the reports indivudually for evey parameter(like ca,ny,fl) . what r the things i need to configure in the business objects in order to use java program to pass parameters to the reports which r scheduled in cmc.
if any one has any materials which will be helpfull post here

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/unix.html

Business Objects Enterprise XI 4.0 Report Application Server Connectivity

Hi,
We have Business Objects Enterprise XI 4.0 (64 bit) in Windows 7 for Report Applciation Server.
Please advise which SDK (32 / 64 bit we have to install in RAS machine and App server)
Thanks,
Edited by: FebiginR on Jan 18, 2012 3:42 PM

Hi,
here are some answers:
1. Well for the Installation of the Software as itself (not the databases) i would recommend at least 30 GB. All the Reports are getting stored physically in the installation directory. This behavior is by default. Later you can move the FileStore (where the Reports, Universes, etc. are located in) to a NAS share f.e.
With Regards to the Databases i would recommend 1 GB for the CMS DB and 5 GB for the Audit DB. It depends on how you Audit your System. If you audit more actions, more information in the Audit DB will be stored.
2. 2 Schemas on one DB is fine
3. Usually you run a BOE installation on UNIX/LINUX under an installation user. BOE will be installed into his Home Directory.
Regards
-Seb.

Business Objects License keys

Hello gurus,
I have installed Business Objects product suite using temperory Keys, Now i want to validate them. I asked basis person to request keys. he came up with three sets of keys. I applied them in CMC . But none of the keys are working for Xcelsius and Crystal reports.
How can i know what products are getting validated by applying these keys, and from where i get client tools keys.
Products installed
BO product suite - server a
SAP integartion Kit - server A
LCM- server A
Live office - server A
Data federator - Server B
Data services - server B
can some guide me how to get these keys.
Thanks
Prashanth

Hello Mauro,
Just to clarify that was not the issue i faced.
May be the user Id has expired or password is changed . if you have any other admin account try to reset the password and try again
regarding administrator user ID please follow below notes
Windows - 1659668
Unix - 1719361
Thanks
Karthik

Business Objects Enterprise XI 4.0 / Linux / Oracle / Tomcat Web Server

Hello Experts,
I have never done a BOBJ install before and I have some questions:
First, here is our setup: Business Objects Enterprise XI 4.0 / Linux / Oracle / Tomcat Web Server
1.     We are being asked how big u2013 disk space- to make the server. All I can find is 14 GB for an English only install, there is no documentation on how big the databases need to be. Does anyone have any experience and can tell me how big the databases are going to be initially? I need to tell the server team how much space to put on the server.
2.     The documentation says to have two databases or schemas, one for Central Management Server and one for the Auditing Data Store. My question around this is whether there is a preferred way to do it, separate databases or separate schemas?
3.     The documentation does not say anything about the file system layout, do we need to create the standard SAP file system layout (i.e. /sapmnt, etc.)
Many many thanks in advance, any advice would be a greate help .. please help
Regards,
Sunil Patel

Hi,
here are some answers:
1. Well for the Installation of the Software as itself (not the databases) i would recommend at least 30 GB. All the Reports are getting stored physically in the installation directory. This behavior is by default. Later you can move the FileStore (where the Reports, Universes, etc. are located in) to a NAS share f.e.
With Regards to the Databases i would recommend 1 GB for the CMS DB and 5 GB for the Audit DB. It depends on how you Audit your System. If you audit more actions, more information in the Audit DB will be stored.
2. 2 Schemas on one DB is fine
3. Usually you run a BOE installation on UNIX/LINUX under an installation user. BOE will be installed into his Home Directory.
Regards
-Seb.

WAS Inst on the NetWeaver 7.2 platform for the Business Objects XI 4.0 SP1

Hello to all,
I have tried to install the WAS on the NetWeaver 7.2 platform for the Business Objects XI 4.0 SP1.
Ok, more preciselly. I have tried to install SP1 for the Business Objects Enterprise XI 4.0. We have had a distributed installation. An application is under the Windows 2k8 R2 platform and the web server (WAS) is under the Unix, where runs the SAP NewWeaver 7.2 CE.
Installation of the SP1 on the application side has ran just fine. Installation of SP1 under Unix went fine as well till I tried to undeploy the previouse one WAS. At first it could not start, it could not find the java, even the wdeployGUI.sh should use its own java, while it happens. I have edited a profile of the appropriate user for using this "own" java. The same I had to do for the pearl. It ran, but It took a very long time - more than two hours. (We have experience from the base installation, that it supposed to be very quick.) So, I have killed three apropriate processes and wav, undeploying ended successfully.
Next, I started to deploy a new WAS. But it has been broken several times with the information (from the <INSTALL PATH>/sap_bobj/enterprise_xi40/wdeploy/logs/wdeploy.log), It could not reach the server with the error message: "Error occurred during the action deployall", "$". I am sure, the acess datas are correct.
Any ideas?
I thing there is some problem with the java and pearl settings. But I can not find relevant webappdeploy_unix document for the SP1, so I do not know, why the deploying could not start automatically as in the case of the base (non SP) installation.

Hi Randy,
Universe is an important part of the Semantic Layer, whether it is version 3.x or version 4.x of SAP BusinessObjects. In version 4.0 (officially known as BI 4.0), you will be using the new Information Design Tool to build universe. It is highly recommended for all of your presentation tools (i.e. WebI, Crystal, Xcelsius/Dashboard, etc) to go through the new Information Design Tool for data (including BW data).
The BI 4.0 Virtual Launch is scheduled on Feb 23. I suggest you to sign up at http://virtualevents.sap.com/business-analytics/login.aspx.
By the way, the SAP BusinessObjects does not have a version 3.2. The most current one is version 3.1. You might be confused with the FixPack which is now up to 3.4.
Hope this helps.

Business Objects XI R2 SP2 with Tomcat and Security Manager enabled

XI R2 SP2 Unix server:
I need to start the tomcat that is embedded in Business Objects with Security Manager enabled. Is there a writeup on how to do that? This changes the port that tomcat runs on, so do I just change all references to the port that it is currently running? Is it that simple?
Thanks for any advice!

It sounds like an issue that would need to be troubleshot by an engineer. Can you open a message with support?
Cluster members for client tools are defined in the windows registry. Does infoview work?
Regards,
Tim

How to use Java SDK to schedule a report in business objects

hi guys i am having a scenario , were the Java SDK will be passing the parameters dynamically to the report in business objects . the Java SDK is kicked by the file based events. this Java SDK will be on the unix server and the business object is also on the unix server. I am having the crystal reports in boe which need to be triggered by the Java SDK . such that the report is scheduled to a particular location on the unix for every week,when the java passes the parameters to the report in boe
Edited by: americansalt on Nov 4, 2010 11:30 AM

You can do this by using the BOE SDK. Here are some samples:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/806fc83f-18ba-2b10-f2b9-cbb49963fc93
Regards,
Stratos

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