BO XI R2 Architecture Diagram

The client tier includes:

• InfoView

• Central Management Console (CMC)

• Central Configuration Manager (CCM)

• Publishing Wizard

• Import Wizard

Application Tier includes:

•Java platform

•Windows .NET platform

The intelligence tier includes the following components:

• Central Management Server (CMS)

• Event Server

• File Repository Servers

• Cache Server

The processing tier includes:

• Job servers

• Report Job Server

• Program Job Server

• Web Intelligence Job Server

• Destination Job Server

• List of Values Job Server

• Desktop Intelligence Job Server

• Web Intelligence Report Server

• Report Application Server (RAS)

• Page Server

Data tier includes:

•Semantic Layers

•Connection Server

BI Architecture diagram

Unable to find installed locale for en_US.UTF-8, en_US.utf8 .. While installing BO XI R2, BOXI 3.1(Linux)

Solution: Add following 2 lines to your bash profile

$ vi .bash_profile

LANG="en_US.utf8"

export LANG

logoff and login or type following command:

$ source .bash_profile

Enabling Auditing on Business Objects XIR2

1. Use ccm.sh to stop the CMS.

./ccm.sh –stop cms

2. Run cmsdbsetup.sh.

./cmsdbsetup.sh

3. Choose the selectaudit option, and then supply the requested information about your database server.

4. Run serverconfig.sh.

./serverconfig.sh

5. Choose the “Modify a server” option.

6. Select the CMS, and enable auditing. Enter the port number of the CMS when prompted (the default value is 6400).

7. Use ccm.sh to start the CMS. When the CMS starts, it will create the auditing database.

Enabling trace on Servers - Business Objects XIR2

1. Go to Directory bobje>

2. Open CCM.CONFIG file using vi editor (i.e., vi ccm.config)

3. Go to respective server line and add the –trace at the end of line like shown below.

4. Restart the server using command ./ccm.sh -start

Example:

cmsLAUNCH='"/bobje/enterprise115/generic/bobjrestart.sh" -protect "/bobje/enterprise115/linux_x86/boe_cmsd" -name xxxxxx.cms -loggingPath "/bobje/logging" -pidFile "/bobje/serverpids/boadmin_cms.pid" -restart -noauditor -fg -trace'

5. Look for Log files under >businessobjects>bobje>logging

Add, Delete or Modifying a Server in Business Objects XIR2 - Linux Environment

Path: /

./serverconfig.sh

---------------------------------------------------------

Business Objects

What would you like to do?

1 - Add a server

2 - Delete a server

3 - Modify a server

4 - List all servers in the config file

Select appropriate option to add, delete or modify the servers.

List of Servers:

cms (boe_cmsd)

pageserver (boe_pagesd)

cacheserver (boe_cachesd)

input (boe_filesd)

output (boe_filesd)

deskijobserver (boe_jobsd)

destjobserver (boe_jobsd)

lovjobserver (boe_jobsd)

reportjobserver (boe_jobsd)

programjobserver (boe_jobsd)

webijobserver (boe_jobsd)

eventserver (boe_eventsd)

ras (boe_crystalrasd)

webi (WIReportServer)

ConnectionServer (ConnectionServer)

fccacheserver (boe_fccached)

fcprocserver (boe_fcprocd)

After selecting the server it will ask for CMS name

Give the id and password for CMS: Ex: id: administrator password: xxxxxxxx

Start the server which you just added like below example:

./ccm.sh –start reportjobserver2

Enable the server after starting the server :

./ccm.sh -enable .reportjobserver2 -cms -username administrator -password xxxxxx -authentication enterprise