Metadata Integrator not displayin cms details

Hi,
I can successfully access Impact And Lineage from the DI Management Console, but all I can see on the left hand side pane are the repository and the datastores. CMS information is not being displayed.
Nothing at all is displayed in the right hand side pane when clicking/hovering over any of the present objects in the left hand side pane.
Installed are:
DI 11.7
BOE 11.5
CMS and DI are installed on the same server and I can successfully configure Metadata Integrator by running the tool which creates the appropriate folder in the CMC. The collector runs successfully as well.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards,
Regine

Metadata Integrator can't run on BOE CMS, Program JobServer running on Unix/Linux
you will have to configure the BOE CMS and Program Job Server on windows on the same machine where DI Metadata Integrator is installed
The cmsCollector application is dependent on DeskI and Universe COM Interface which is not available on UNIX, hence the limitation
its not documented in 11.7, if you have access to following link, then you can check for steps in Data Services Documentation
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31211_ds_technical_manuals_en.pdf
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Configuring Metadata Integrator in a distributed environment

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