BOE-XI (R2) - Rename CMS name in Login Screen for CLUSTER

Question

BOE-XI (R2)
Cluster with Two (2) physical servers side-by-side hosting all BOE services.
Both Tomcat and IIS installed on both physical servers.
We don't want the end-users of InfoView to see/know the underlying server names (eg. BOE_SERVER_1 and BOE_SERVER_2 ) in the URL for the CMC / InfoView - or in the CMS Name on the login screens for those applications.
I assume that we can use some kind of DNS service in front of the website to mask that, but I don't know how we can "rename" it in the CMS name in Login Screen.
What we want is to use a name like BOE_PROD for the URL path -  and for the CMS Name on the login screens for CMC / InfoView
Anyone done this before...? Any documentation you can point me to...?
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: Mark Richardson on Oct 31, 2008 5:29 PM

Answer 1

Here is one of my best findings on the matter.
DNS ---
The DNS bit is not documented but here is how I achieve this. The cluster configuration should be documented in the deployment or admin guide.
For XIr2 to run with DNS, you need to add -port to the CMS, IFRS, OFRS and RAS (if you use crystal) - check the SAP notes to see because there are differeences between the CMS and other services for this. You will use the DNS name in this parameter instead of the hostname.
From what you explained, you will need at least two DNS's
In -port, use the dns name for the CMS (the DNS MUST match the IP address of the server where the CMS run if you want it to work)
In EVERY services, you will need to change the -ns parameter to match the DNS name other registration will fail.
Client tools will have to use the DNS or clustername.
From my tests, DONT change -name. If you manage to do so, feel free to tell us more about it.
--- Cluster name ---
For that bit, I'll give the quick information, but the reference is the documentation.
What follows is for tomcat. However, as stated above, the documentation explains pretty well how to achieve this for IIS too and you just need to replace hostname by fqdn in every bit that tells you how to configure this.
For the name visible on the logon page on InfoView, it is in the web.xml Note: you can set the default name to the cluster name and even hide the CMS name if you want. (tomcat/webapps/businessobjects/enterprise115/desktoplaunch/web-inf/web.xml)
The default value for the cms should be there, and a specific part is commented for the cluster names. If you want to use the clustername as the default value, you'll need to uncomment the part for it and fill in the required information (ClusterName and CMS DNS names) and then change the default value. This is required because Tomcat doesnt know how to resolve the clustername otherwise.
Same thing goes for the CMC: (tomcat/webapps/businessobjects/enterprise115/adminlaunch/web-inf/web.xml)
Restart Tomcat and BO and you have a fully DNS compliant BO server with a cluster name based on the DNS.
Let us know how it goes.
Cheers,