Integrating BI server groups with BIP groups

Hello - having a BIP integration with OBIEE issue.
Running:
BIP 10.1.3.3.3 running on AIX
OBIEE 10.1.3.3.3 running on AIX
Our OBIEE server is configured so that users authenticate with our enterprise LDAP implementation. After they authenticate, OBIEE is able to see which LDAP groups the user belongs to and uses these LDAP groups to determine which privelages the user is assigned in OBIEE because OBIEE has the same groups defined within its security model. For example, if user ABC is in LDAP group "OBI ADMIN" then they become a member of the "OBI Administrator" group in OBIEE. This is configured properly and working.
For BIP, my goal is to use BI Server security and have users who are in the "OBI Administrator" group within OBIEE also assigned as an administrator of the BIP system by assigning the "OBI Administrator" group to "XMLP_ADMIN". I've configured BIP to use BI server security and I've verified that authentication is working with LDAP.
When I assign the OBI "OBI Administrator" group to the "XMLP_ADMIN" group then the users in "OBI Administrator" group do not have access to the Admin tab in BIP. I've also tried assigning the XMLP_ADMIN group to the "OBI Administrator" group, but this does not work either.
Has anyone been able to assign OBIEE groups to the XMLP_ADMIN (or any other XMLP groups in OBIEE) and had it work? Perhaps there is something fundamental I am missing or misunderstanding.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
This is a bug already raised with Oracle Support. What I did was to add the required BI Publisher groups to the desired users,in addition to the existing OBI groups. That is,we created a composite key based on Employee ID and Group Name.This enabled us to assign several BI Publisher groups to a user in the database table containing user informations.Let me know if it solves your problem too.
Thanks and regards,
Debarati.
[email protected]
Edited by: user581741 on Apr 8, 2009 1:29 AM
Edited by: user581741 on Apr 8, 2009 1:30 AM

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If your server team needs to perform regular server maintenance tasks that require them to shut down and start up servers, you need to grant them rights to the servers. You may also want to delegate SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform server administration tasks to other people. Or you may want different groups within your organization to have control over their own server management.
Judging from this information, assigning rights to server groups should be used from administrative access to the servers, not to decide who get to use the server from an end-user perspective. The latter should be done by assigning server groups to documents/reports. However, this leaves us with the same problem when dealing with ad-hoc reports.
Kind regards,
Kristof Speeckaert

Server Groups - "Give Preference" vs "Only Use"

Hi All,
I'm working on a project where we want to have batches of reports being scheduled to specific server groups. Currently when these batches are run, the reports use the "first available server" option in CMC. This is problematic as the reports are just being scheduled to whatever server has the least load at the time, so on demand reports just have to wait until the long batches are over before they can be scheduled.
In CMC, there are two options for setting up server groups:
"Give preference to servers belonging to the selected group"
"Only use servers belonging to the selected group"
Our fix was to schedule these batches to server groups so that some of the servers would be available for on demand reporting. Since our goal is to have distinct server groups to help with load balance, we went with the "Only use" option. The functionality of this is pretty clear: Even if the needed servers (AJS) are disabled, stopped, or busy, the reports will still be scheduled to this server group. However, the functionality regarding the "Give preference" option is unclear.
My question is: Under what conditions would BusinessObjects switch to using a server not included in the server group if the "Give preference" option were used?
As far as documentation goes, the best answer I found was that the server would switch when the needed servers are "not available". What exactly does this mean?
When the server is disabled? (Assuming yes, this would be good for us)
When the server is stopped? (Assuming yes, this would be good for us)
When the server is busy? (No idea..., if yes, this would be bad)
If the server switches when the specified server is busy, then we just run into the same issue we had before, so we wouldn't want to do that. Does anyone have any insight into how this works so we can figure out which option to go with?
Thanks everyone!
Valentin Lazar

First reports will try to use the servers in the group, if they are not available, then it will go other servers.It may be disabled, or stopped.

CVP - SIP Server Groups and Redundant SIP Proxy (CUPS)

I am migrating from a CVP 7 + UCCE 7.5 solution which uses srv.xml files on the CVP servers to implement redundancy
from CVP to the SIP Proxies (which are CUPS based).
In the new CVP 8.5 + UCCE 8.5 solution, I am trying to set up equivalent redundancy, which
is now done via Server Groups.
The solution is geographically diverse, with one CVP server + a CUPS server (publisher) at Site1,
and the second CVP + CUPS server (subscriber) at site 2.
Previously (on CVP 7), I was able to configure each CVP server so that its priority was to use the CUPS server at its
"local" site. Hence there were 2 different srv.xml files, one for each CVP server.
To configure this in CVP 8.5, I would need 2 SIP Server groups, to give each CVP a group
configured to prefer the "local" CUPS server. But when I configure a SIP server group(s) pointing to CUPS, I seem to be only able
to get one single Server Group to work. That single Server Group only works if the server group name
matches exactly the Domain Name configured in CUPS. Since CUPS' Domain name is a single cluster wide name,
I can get only one Server Group working, not the two that I need.
So, where am I going wrong?
Regards.

Fairly new to CVP and had a question about how to configure the dialed number patterns so they point to more than 1 CUCM. My environment doesn't have a SIP Proxy or DNS Srv. That said, I tried to create as what was mentioned above - SIP Serve Group with 2 CUCM Subs then have a dialed number pattern point to it. However, when I initiate a call to an ICM script and eventually hit an agent, it flips between ready and reserve. When I change the dialed number pattern to point to a specific CUCM, it works fine. Followed all the aobve recommendations as well. Any idea how to make this work? Hoping I'm just missing something here...

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