Hi,

By following SAP NOTE: 1628154, configuring promotional management to connect Destination system (Dev server) from production system. I have tried to assign static port no to the request port in the Central Management Server. After restart the SIA not able to login back to the CMC and getting below error message.

Account information not recognized: Could not reach CMS 'CFDWBIR02:6400'. Specify the correct host and port and check for network issues. (FWM 20030)

I would have to try over 6410 range port but gave 6402.

Now do we have any way to change the port no in the Central Management Server with out logging CMC?

Thanks

Venky

This page provides an overview of the available What's New Materials for the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x Suite

SAP Lumira

• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.16 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.17 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.18 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.19 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.19: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.20 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.20: What’s new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.21 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.21: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.22 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.22: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.23 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.23: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.25 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.25: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.27 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.28 (Summary)

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L0

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L1
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L2

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L1 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L2 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP3 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP4 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP05 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP06 What's New | SCN

Client Specific Content

• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP - Part 1
• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis OLAP Part 2
• Web Intelligence 4.1, what's new?
• BI 4.1 Ramp-Up Knowledge Transfer Live Expert Session Schedule
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Explorer New Features - More Details
• What is new with SAP Integration BI4.1 and SAP ERP?
• What is new with SAP Integration BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW? Part 2
• What is New with SAP Integration with BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW - Part 3
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 1, Developer Support ASUG Webcast
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 2, Core Capabilities
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 3 - Data Source Enhancements
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 4 with Question & Answer

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Recorded Presentations

• SAP BI4.1 SP4 & 5 technology update | myBrainshark
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP5 (1:40)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP4 (1:10)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP3 (1:37)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2 (3:02)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 (5:27)interactive / video

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Slides

Client Specific Content

• BI 4.0 New Features and Changes - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Recorded Presentations

• Concept - What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 - YouTube
• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3: Web Intelligence 4.0 FP3 - YouTube
• Concept: What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5: Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 - YouTube
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 (2:04)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 (4:20)interactive/ video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 (6:25)interactive /video

SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

• What's New in SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

Hello Everyone,

Objective: Create dashboard and webi reports on BEx query directly, for this we need to create OLAP Connection(BICs)to SAP BI server.

Introduction: SAP BO 4.0 onwards allows us to connect BEx query via Business Intelligence Consumer Services (BICS) connection which also known as OLAP connection. We can create and save OLAP connection through CMC (Central Management Console) or IDT (Information Design Tool). OLAP connection can be created to connect BI server, Multiprovider, InfoCube and Bex query. If connection is specific for particular Query, Cube or Multiprovider then goes for create it in query or cube base Otherwise create connection on BI server through which we can connect to any BEx query. The benefit of creating Connection on BI server is single OLAP connection for all BO reports.

Create OLAP connection to connect BI server:

1) Login to CMC with Administrator authorization right and goes to OLAP Connection

2) Then select new connection

  3) Put the BI server details as per below given screen shot.         

4) Click on Connect button to check connectivity give BI server credential.

5) Don’t select any cube or query as we are making connection to BI server, click on cancel.

6) Select Authentication Type as ‘Predefined’ and maintain user name and password and save.

Now we have created OLAP Connection to BI server successfully using CMC. Hope this Document will be helpful.

Thanks,

Kashif Ali Khan

How to Upgrade to BI4.1 SP02 to BI4.1SP06 Steps including Lumira Server:

Purpose:

The purpose of this document is to up-grade SAP Business Objects Application from 4.1 SP2 to SAP Business Objects Application from 4.1 SP6 with Lumira Server 1.28

Overview:

Environment Details:

Operating system: Windows Server 2008 64 Bit

Database:Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2

Web Application: Tomcat

SAP Business Objects Tools:SAP Business Objects BI Platform for enterprise 4.1 SP06; SAP LUMIRA SERVER FOR BIPLATFM

Installation & Configuration steps to upgrade BI4.1 SP02 to BI4.1SP06:

Pre Installation Check List:

• Backup of file-store, tomcat configuration files & Data base.
  • Backup of CMS & Audit metadata
• Backup of Following Configuration Files available at Tomcat (Web Tier) & BOBJ Layer (Management Tier & Processing Tier):
  • web.xml
  • server.xml
  • BILaunchpad.properties
  • Global.properties (If you have done any changes)
  • If you have implement custom changes at web or BOBJ layer, please take backup of those files.
    
• Backup of SSO Configuration files available in your environment
  
• Make a note of recurring instance available in current environment
  • Pause all instance before doing any upgrade activity

Post Installation Check List:

• Installation of SAP BO 4.1 SP06

• Installation of SAP Lumira Server 1.28
• Validate the following Configuration files after installation available at Tomcat (Web Tier) & BOBJ Layer (Management Tier & Processing Tier):
  • web.xml
  • server.xml
  • BILaunchpad.properties
  • Global.properties (If you have done any changes)
• Validate custom changes at web or BOBJ layer is same as earlier or not.
• Validate your configuration with respect to below points:
  • SSO (SAP, Windows AD, LDAP, & Others like Oracle SIEBEL)
  • Start all paused instances and check the status after schedule.
• Validate your reports available in your environment

SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.x SPxx PAM Documents:

1338845 - How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845

1868888 - Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888

SCN Thread related to Pre-requisite:-

Link:

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/07/27/sap-businessobjects-xi-31bi-4x-installation-prerequisites-and-best-practices-linuxunix

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/05/01/sap-businessobjects-installation-pre-requisites

Software Path in SAP Market Place:- Please refer above KBA for software detail

SAP Lumira 1.28 Details:-

SAP Business Objects 4.1 SP06 Path:-

Up gradation & Configuration Documents:

When the prerequisite system check completes successfully, click Next

On the "SAP BusinessObjects BI platform services 4.1 SP6 setup" page, click Next.

Accept the License Agreement, and click Next.

Type a password for the CMS Administrator account, and click Next

To start the installation, click Next. & Installation is in progress

Updating Repository - Installation is in progress

Finish

Features available after upgrade from SAP BI 4.1 SP2 to BI 4.1 SP6:

Kill Session in Session Manager Tab:

Installation & Configuration document of SAP Lumira 1.28 for BI Platform:

Accept the License Agreement, and click Next

Select Features and click Next

Type a password for the CMS Administrator account, and click Next.

Installation is in progress

Finish

Note:-

• After installation of SAP Lumira Server additional services will be available in SAP BusinessObjects Platform

Relevant Systems

These enhancements were successfully implemented in the following systems:

• SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.1 SP06
• SAP Lumira Server For BIPLAT 1.28

This document is relevant for:

• SAP Business Objects Administrator

Reference Material:

Upgrade Guide:

http://help.sap.com/bobip

Installation, Upgrade, Deployment:

https://websmp204.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/012002523100008807082015E/sbo41sp6_sp_update_en.pdf

SAP Lumira, server for BI Platform:

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/lumS4BIP1/en/lumS4BIP_128_admin_en.pdf

How to Upgrade to BI4.0

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/How+to+Upgrade+to+BI4.0

All you need to know before upgrading to BI4.0

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/All+you+need+to+know+before+upgrading+to+BI4.0

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade – Overview

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56525

Official Product Tutorials – SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8292

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 Product Availability Matrix:

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam?hash=pvnr%3D67837800100900006540

How to install SAP BusinessObjects BI add-on for SAP Lumira (Part 1) - Ramp-Up!

http://scn.sap.com/community/lumira/blog/2014/07/01/how-to-install-sap-businessobjects-bi-add-on-for-sap-lumira

SAP Lumira Family Supported Versions Matrix

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-61446

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP06 What's New

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-64250

SNotes:

1338845 - How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845

1868888 - Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888

1739722 Upgrade Management Tool - Prerequisites

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1739722

1654423 Migrations fails or take too long when using SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade Management Tool

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1654423

1804414 How to increase Upgrade Management Tool timeout?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1804414

1863600 - How does session management work with SAP BI Platform 4.0 web application clients?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1863600

1837122 - How to increase session timeout value for BI Launchpad and CMC in BI 4.0

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1837122

1950573 – Is it Necessary to Split the Adaptive Job Server in BI 4.x?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1950573

Note 1768713:Crystal report when exported to PDF displays in wrong font in BOE XI 3.1

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1768713

Video ( SCN recoded webinar & YouTube):

SAP BI 4.1 - Solution Expert Webinars

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56308

BI Upgrade: A Guided Tour of Online Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWcxShmqVe0&list=PLufF7pZxICBiJqcdJv-L1hVn8ZiWh70kk

Upgrade Process: Moving from BusinessObjects XI Release 2/3.1 and BI 4.0 to BI 4.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhWNsnMZI

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TJXdfAH-Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvj_riui50Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TJXdfAH-Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvj_riui50Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade and Update – Best Practices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhWNsnMZI

I will continue with the installation of SAP Business objects on Sybase ASE.

Earlier we saw how to install Sybase ase and create the run time databases for SAP Business objects cms and audit.

In this we will see the actual installation.

SAP Business objects 4.1, SP-04 installation, Using Sybase ASE 16x - Part1

SAP Business objects 4.1, SP-04 installation, Using Sybase ASE 16x - Part2

Thanks & Regards,

Vijay

The following document is intended to summarize the various SSO options available to users, from authenticating to the BI platform all the way down to the database.  The document does not cover the 'how to' as various white papers exist.

The first table summarizes the various ways the system can perform single sign-on to the web based appplications.

-OpenDocument refers to the direct link to report functionality.

-BI Portal is the main portal used to access & view reports

-CMC = Central Management Console

-dswsbobje = web services. 

Note that to support Kerberos SSO, your CMS (Central Management Server) must be installed on a windows machine. 

Trusted Authentication can generally be used for any authentication method which is not natively supported by BI4, such as SAML, x509 etc. 

Thick Clients, such as Crystal Reports Designer, Web Intelligence and others can also be configured for SSO to logon to BI4.  

The following table summarizes this:

Note that for the Java based clients, you will need to perform some additional steps to support AD SSO, such and configuring a krb5.ini file.  This applies to clients such as Crystal Reports for Enterprise,  Information Design Tool, and Visual Intelligence.  Please refer to the Authentication chapter of the respective client tool for more information. 

The clients can also be further configured further to perform single sign-on to the database, which is elaborated further in tables below.

Once a user has been authenticated to the BI platform, their SSO ticket can in some cases be passed further down to the database for a seamless end to end SSO story.

SSO to database based on Kerberos can be configured for the following databases, note that the user must logon to the BI platform using Active Directory for the kerberos ticket to be passed down to the database.   Note however that this cannot be used for scheduling, as the kerberos ticket will not be available to the system when the user is not online.  For scheduled tasks, the database credentials must be stored.

Yes, there are plans to expand this list in the future.

For SAP data access, the following methods can be configured.  You will need to configure the correct method depending on the client tool being used.  "SNC" is configured on the "SNC Settings" tab of the SAP authentication configuration area of the Central Management Console.   "STS (Security Token Service)" is configured on the "Options" tab of the SAP authentication configuration area, in the "SAP SSO Service" section. 

SAP Data SSO

In order to gain SSO access to SAP data, a user does NOT have to logon with their SAP credentials.   For an example of how users can authenticate using Active Directory and then single sign-on to SAP systems, please refer to this how to: How to map SAP users and LDAP users in SBO BI4.0 CMC - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

The SAP authentication can also be leveraged from thick clients.  A user logging onto Webi Rich Client can leverage STS for example to access BW data. 

HANA SSO summary:

(1) * BI must be running on windows or linux.

SAML to HANA is based on a trust directly between BI4 and HANA.  This does not mean that you can use SAML to signon to BI4 and that same SAML assertion ticket gets passed down to HANA.  BI4 must be configured as a trusted identity provider in HANA. The same users must exist in HANA and BI4.

What other SSO options do I have?

The BI platform also supports storing database credentials to be used for accessing the database.   In some cases, as with kerberos & offline scheduling, this cannot be avoided.  Also, for database sources which are not currently listed, stored credentials are the best options available at this time.

Can I setup multiple SSO options on a single system?

Yes, with 4.1 SP6 and on, the sso.types.and.order option in your properties allows for setting up fallback SSO options in order.   If some users are configured for AD SSO and others for SAP SSO, you can try AD first and try SAP SSO as fallback.  See note http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2041379 for details.

Useful Links:

Configuring Active Directory Authentication:   Be sure the follow the excellent whitepaper attached to the note.

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1631734

Configuring Active Directory SSO on unix:

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1636349

Configuring SAP Authentication and SSO:

How to setup SSO against SAP BW with SAP BO BI4.0 Common Semantic Layer (UNX) or BICS - Business Intelligence (BusinessO…

Configuring OLAP SSO for MSAAS:

Setting up OLAP Microsoft Analysis Service through an XMLA connection with SSO - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects)…

Setting up HANA and BI for SAML

Configuring SAML with SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 - Part 1

Setting up Trusted Authentication:

Using QUERY_STRING: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1593628

Using HTTP_HEADER: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1603002

CMC SSO http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2190831

This page provides an overview of the available What's New Materials for the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x Suite

SAP Lumira

• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.16 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.17 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.18 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.19 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.19: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.20 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.20: What’s new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.21 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.21: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.22 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.22: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.23 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.23: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.25 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.25: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.27 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.28 (Summary)

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L0

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L1
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L2

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L1 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L2 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP3 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP4 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP05 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP06 What's New | SCN

Client Specific Content

• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP - Part 1
• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis OLAP Part 2
• Web Intelligence 4.1, what's new?
• BI 4.1 Ramp-Up Knowledge Transfer Live Expert Session Schedule
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Explorer New Features - More Details
• What is new with SAP Integration BI4.1 and SAP ERP?
• What is new with SAP Integration BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW? Part 2
• What is New with SAP Integration with BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW - Part 3
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 1, Developer Support ASUG Webcast
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 2, Core Capabilities
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 3 - Data Source Enhancements
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 4 with Question & Answer

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Recorded Presentations

• SAP BI4.1 SP4 & 5 technology update | myBrainshark
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP5 (1:40)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP4 (1:10)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP3 (1:37)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2 (3:02)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 (5:27)interactive / video

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Slides

Client Specific Content

• BI 4.0 New Features and Changes - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Recorded Presentations

• Concept - What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 - YouTube
• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3: Web Intelligence 4.0 FP3 - YouTube
• Concept: What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5: Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 - YouTube
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 (2:04)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 (4:20)interactive/ video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 (6:25)interactive /video

SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

• What's New in SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

Webinars covering all things important for BI projects. Register for upcoming sessions or watch recordings of past events.

Technical Webinar Series: Upgrading to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1

Once again will we provide a series of free webinars that are focused on upgrading to the SAP BI Platform 4.1. This webinar series is a supplement to other information assets found on SCN.

Webinar title, date, registration and presenter information is given below - all webinars will start at 7am PDT, unless otherwise specified. Webinar dates and times may be subject to change.

• Registration links: will be enabled a few days before the scheduled webinar date.
• Recordings: will be posted no later than a week after the event.

If you 'follow' this page, you will receive notifications of any updates, including new webinar content, dates and registration links - also recordings of all completed webinars will be made available from this page. Stay Tuned !

Upcoming Webinars - Registrations		Date	Presenter
	What's new in SAP BI 4.2	Oct 27	ME
	Design Studio Templates and the BI Platform	Nov 24	HJ
	Gain insight into your BI Platform with new Auditing Universe and Reports	Dec 08	MS
	SAP BI Platform Support Tool 2.0 - Improved administration and Supportability	Jan 19	TJ
	Data Federation Admin Tool – Tuning Execution of Multi-Source Universes	Feb 16	SP
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Recordings of Past Webinars		Date	Presenter
	UNX Adoption - Planning & Execution (by APOS Systems) (recording | pdf)	Sep 29	FW,HJ
	Creating Relational Connections for SAP BI 4.1 for Reporting on SAP BW (recording)	Aug 04	JR
	User Authentication and Single Sign-On with BI 4.1 (recording)	Jul 21	GDL
	Sizing your BI Platform, using the SAP Sizing Tool (recording)	Jul 07	HJ
	What's new in BI 4.1 SP6 (recording | presentation)	Jun 23	ME
	Best Practices for WebI (recording)	Jun 23	JB
	A guided Tour: How to best make use of Online Resources (recording)	May 18	HB
	BI 4.1 Monitoring - (Recording)	Nov 13	TJ
	Troubleshooting - (Recording)	Nov 06	GS
	Promotion Management & Version Management - (Recording)	Oct 23	MS
	WebI Calculation Engine Changes - (Recording)	Oct 16	PG
	DeskI to WebI Conversion & Desktop Compatibility Pack - (Recording)	Oct 09	ME
	Upgrading from XI Release 2/3.1 to 4.1 and updating From BI 4.0 to 4.1 - (Recording)	Sep 25	ME
	User Authentication & Single Sign-On - (Recording)	Sep 11	TZ
	BusinessObjects BI Strategy & Roadmap - (Recording)	Sep 09	JL
	Installation & Patching - (Recording)	Sep 04	HJ
	Deployment Best Practices - (Recording)	Aug 29	HJ
	Sizing & Virtualization - (Recording)	Aug 14	CL
	Update Best Practices - (Recording)	Jul 30	SR
	Value Prop & Tools - (Recording)	Jul 17	HB

Overview:

Working with SAP Consulting I have been involved in a few discussions with customers where it has surfaced that there are some feature differences when using the SAP BusinessObjects BI server on different operating Systems and customers were not aware of some differences. This blog intends to collect and document feature differences between SAP BI BusinessObjects Server OS.

Which Operating Systems are generally supported for the SAP BI Server?

As of today (BI4.1 SP06) following OS are mentioned in the PAM as supported: Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris.

Are there feature differences for end users depending on the SAP BI Server OS?

Yes, here a summary of differences:

Table 1: Feature differences as of BI 4.1 SP06

Are there any features supported on *nix and not on Windows?

The only disadvantage seems to be related to the ability of Installing multiple BO servers in one single machine.

Can I have a mix deployment?

Yes, this is possible.

Ressources:

https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/pam

Complete SSO overview

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1323391

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1636349

Deploying Lumira Server for BI Platform on Non Windows environment

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41sp6_bip_admin_en.pdf

1950735 - Support for multiple Service Intelligent Agent (SIA) Nodes connecting to different CMS Repositories

Creating a Webi doc off of an unmanaged Excel data source on a network share

Updates to this document:

If you would like to make any enhancement/amend to this document, feel free to edit the document directly, I have made it open for the SCN community to collaborate.

Hello Everyone,

Objective: Create dashboard and webi reports on BEx query directly, for this we need to create OLAP Connection(BICs)to SAP BI server.

Introduction: SAP BO 4.0 onwards allows us to connect BEx query via Business Intelligence Consumer Services (BICS) connection which also known as OLAP connection. We can create and save OLAP connection through CMC (Central Management Console) or IDT (Information Design Tool). OLAP connection can be created to connect BI server, Multiprovider, InfoCube and Bex query. If connection is specific for particular Query, Cube or Multiprovider then goes for create it in query or cube base Otherwise create connection on BI server through which we can connect to any BEx query. The benefit of creating Connection on BI server is single OLAP connection for all BO reports.

Create OLAP connection to connect BI server:

1) Login to CMC with Administrator authorization right and goes to OLAP Connection

2) Then select new connection

  3) Put the BI server details as per below given screen shot.         

4) Click on Connect button to check connectivity give BI server credential.

5) Don’t select any cube or query as we are making connection to BI server, click on cancel.

6) Select Authentication Type as ‘Predefined’ and maintain user name and password and save.

Now we have created OLAP Connection to BI server successfully using CMC. Hope this Document will be helpful.

Thanks,

Kashif Ali Khan

How to Upgrade to BI4.1 SP02 to BI4.1SP06 Steps including Lumira Server:

Purpose:

The purpose of this document is to up-grade SAP Business Objects Application from 4.1 SP2 to SAP Business Objects Application from 4.1 SP6 with Lumira Server 1.28

Overview:

Environment Details:

Operating system: Windows Server 2008 64 Bit

Database:Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2

Web Application: Tomcat

SAP Business Objects Tools:SAP Business Objects BI Platform for enterprise 4.1 SP06; SAP LUMIRA SERVER FOR BIPLATFM

Installation & Configuration steps to upgrade BI4.1 SP02 to BI4.1SP06:

Pre Installation Check List:

• Backup of file-store, tomcat configuration files & Data base.
  • Backup of CMS & Audit metadata
• Backup of Following Configuration Files available at Tomcat (Web Tier) & BOBJ Layer (Management Tier & Processing Tier):
  • web.xml
  • server.xml
  • BILaunchpad.properties
  • Global.properties (If you have done any changes)
  • If you have implement custom changes at web or BOBJ layer, please take backup of those files.
    
• Backup of SSO Configuration files available in your environment
  
• Make a note of recurring instance available in current environment
  • Pause all instance before doing any upgrade activity

Post Installation Check List:

• Installation of SAP BO 4.1 SP06

• Installation of SAP Lumira Server 1.28
• Validate the following Configuration files after installation available at Tomcat (Web Tier) & BOBJ Layer (Management Tier & Processing Tier):
  • web.xml
  • server.xml
  • BILaunchpad.properties
  • Global.properties (If you have done any changes)
• Validate custom changes at web or BOBJ layer is same as earlier or not.
• Validate your configuration with respect to below points:
  • SSO (SAP, Windows AD, LDAP, & Others like Oracle SIEBEL)
  • Start all paused instances and check the status after schedule.
• Validate your reports available in your environment

SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.x SPxx PAM Documents:

1338845 - How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845

1868888 - Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888

SCN Thread related to Pre-requisite:-

Link:

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/07/27/sap-businessobjects-xi-31bi-4x-installation-prerequisites-and-best-practices-linuxunix

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/05/01/sap-businessobjects-installation-pre-requisites

Software Path in SAP Market Place:- Please refer above KBA for software detail

SAP Lumira 1.28 Details:-

SAP Business Objects 4.1 SP06 Path:-

Up gradation & Configuration Documents:

When the prerequisite system check completes successfully, click Next

On the "SAP BusinessObjects BI platform services 4.1 SP6 setup" page, click Next.

Accept the License Agreement, and click Next.

Type a password for the CMS Administrator account, and click Next

To start the installation, click Next. & Installation is in progress

Updating Repository - Installation is in progress

Finish

Features available after upgrade from SAP BI 4.1 SP2 to BI 4.1 SP6:

Kill Session in Session Manager Tab:

Installation & Configuration document of SAP Lumira 1.28 for BI Platform:

Accept the License Agreement, and click Next

Select Features and click Next

Type a password for the CMS Administrator account, and click Next.

Installation is in progress

Finish

Note:-

• After installation of SAP Lumira Server additional services will be available in SAP BusinessObjects Platform

Relevant Systems

These enhancements were successfully implemented in the following systems:

• SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.1 SP06
• SAP Lumira Server For BIPLAT 1.28

This document is relevant for:

• SAP Business Objects Administrator

Reference Material:

Upgrade Guide:

http://help.sap.com/bobip

Installation, Upgrade, Deployment:

https://websmp204.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/012002523100008807082015E/sbo41sp6_sp_update_en.pdf

SAP Lumira, server for BI Platform:

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/lumS4BIP1/en/lumS4BIP_128_admin_en.pdf

How to Upgrade to BI4.0

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/How+to+Upgrade+to+BI4.0

All you need to know before upgrading to BI4.0

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/All+you+need+to+know+before+upgrading+to+BI4.0

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade – Overview

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56525

Official Product Tutorials – SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8292

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 Product Availability Matrix:

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam?hash=pvnr%3D67837800100900006540

How to install SAP BusinessObjects BI add-on for SAP Lumira (Part 1) - Ramp-Up!

http://scn.sap.com/community/lumira/blog/2014/07/01/how-to-install-sap-businessobjects-bi-add-on-for-sap-lumira

SAP Lumira Family Supported Versions Matrix

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-61446

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP06 What's New

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-64250

SNotes:

1338845 - How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845

1868888 - Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888

1739722 Upgrade Management Tool - Prerequisites

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1739722

1654423 Migrations fails or take too long when using SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade Management Tool

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1654423

1804414 How to increase Upgrade Management Tool timeout?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1804414

1863600 - How does session management work with SAP BI Platform 4.0 web application clients?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1863600

1837122 - How to increase session timeout value for BI Launchpad and CMC in BI 4.0

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1837122

1950573 – Is it Necessary to Split the Adaptive Job Server in BI 4.x?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1950573

Note 1768713:Crystal report when exported to PDF displays in wrong font in BOE XI 3.1

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1768713

Video ( SCN recoded webinar & YouTube):

SAP BI 4.1 - Solution Expert Webinars

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56308

BI Upgrade: A Guided Tour of Online Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWcxShmqVe0&list=PLufF7pZxICBiJqcdJv-L1hVn8ZiWh70kk

Upgrade Process: Moving from BusinessObjects XI Release 2/3.1 and BI 4.0 to BI 4.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhWNsnMZI

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TJXdfAH-Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvj_riui50Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TJXdfAH-Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvj_riui50Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade and Update – Best Practices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhWNsnMZI

The following document is intended to summarize the various SSO options available to users, from authenticating to the BI platform all the way down to the database.  The document does not cover the 'how to' as various white papers exist.

The first table summarizes the various ways the system can perform single sign-on to the web based appplications.

-OpenDocument refers to the direct link to report functionality.

-BI Portal is the main portal used to access & view reports

-CMC = Central Management Console

-dswsbobje = web services. 

Note that to support Kerberos SSO, your CMS (Central Management Server) must be installed on a windows machine. 

Trusted Authentication can generally be used for any authentication method which is not natively supported by BI4, such as SAML, x509 etc. 

Thick Clients, such as Crystal Reports Designer, Web Intelligence and others can also be configured for SSO to logon to BI4.  

The following table summarizes this:

Note that for the Java based clients, you will need to perform some additional steps to support AD SSO, such and configuring a krb5.ini file.  This applies to clients such as Crystal Reports for Enterprise,  Information Design Tool, and Visual Intelligence.  Please refer to the Authentication chapter of the respective client tool for more information. 

The clients can also be further configured further to perform single sign-on to the database, which is elaborated further in tables below.

Once a user has been authenticated to the BI platform, their SSO ticket can in some cases be passed further down to the database for a seamless end to end SSO story.

SSO to database based on Kerberos can be configured for the following databases, note that the user must logon to the BI platform using Active Directory for the kerberos ticket to be passed down to the database.   Note however that this cannot be used for scheduling, as the kerberos ticket will not be available to the system when the user is not online.  For scheduled tasks, the database credentials must be stored.

Yes, there are plans to expand this list in the future.

For SAP data access, the following methods can be configured.  You will need to configure the correct method depending on the client tool being used.  "SNC" is configured on the "SNC Settings" tab of the SAP authentication configuration area of the Central Management Console.   "STS (Security Token Service)" is configured on the "Options" tab of the SAP authentication configuration area, in the "SAP SSO Service" section. 

SAP Data SSO

In order to gain SSO access to SAP data, a user does NOT have to logon with their SAP credentials.   For an example of how users can authenticate using Active Directory and then single sign-on to SAP systems, please refer to this how to: How to map SAP users and LDAP users in SBO BI4.0 CMC - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

The SAP authentication can also be leveraged from thick clients.  A user logging onto Webi Rich Client can leverage STS for example to access BW data. 

HANA SSO summary:

(1) * BI must be running on windows or linux.

SAML to HANA is based on a trust directly between BI4 and HANA.  This does not mean that you can use SAML to signon to BI4 and that same SAML assertion ticket gets passed down to HANA.  BI4 must be configured as a trusted identity provider in HANA. The same users must exist in HANA and BI4.

What other SSO options do I have?

The BI platform also supports storing database credentials to be used for accessing the database.   In some cases, as with kerberos & offline scheduling, this cannot be avoided.  Also, for database sources which are not currently listed, stored credentials are the best options available at this time.

Can I setup multiple SSO options on a single system?

Yes, with 4.1 SP6 and on, the sso.types.and.order option in your properties allows for setting up fallback SSO options in order.   If some users are configured for AD SSO and others for SAP SSO, you can try AD first and try SAP SSO as fallback.  See note http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2041379 for details.

Useful Links:

Configuring Active Directory Authentication:   Be sure the follow the excellent whitepaper attached to the note.

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1631734

Configuring Active Directory SSO on unix:

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1636349

Configuring SAP Authentication and SSO:

How to setup SSO against SAP BW with SAP BO BI4.0 Common Semantic Layer (UNX) or BICS - Business Intelligence (BusinessO…

Configuring OLAP SSO for MSAAS:

Setting up OLAP Microsoft Analysis Service through an XMLA connection with SSO - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects)…

Setting up HANA and BI for SAML

Configuring SAML with SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 - Part 1

Setting up Trusted Authentication:

Using QUERY_STRING: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1593628

Using HTTP_HEADER: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1603002

CMC SSO http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2190831

This page provides an overview of the available What's New Materials for the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x Suite

SAP Lumira

• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.16 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.17 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.18 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.19 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.19: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.20 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.20: What’s new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.21 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.21: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.22 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.22: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.23 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.23: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.25 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.25: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.27 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.28 (Summary)

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L0

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L1
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L2

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L1 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L2 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP3 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP4 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP05 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP06 What's New | SCN

Client Specific Content

• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP - Part 1
• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis OLAP Part 2
• Web Intelligence 4.1, what's new?
• BI 4.1 Ramp-Up Knowledge Transfer Live Expert Session Schedule
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Explorer New Features - More Details
• What is new with SAP Integration BI4.1 and SAP ERP?
• What is new with SAP Integration BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW? Part 2
• What is New with SAP Integration with BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW - Part 3
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 1, Developer Support ASUG Webcast
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 2, Core Capabilities
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 3 - Data Source Enhancements
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 4 with Question & Answer

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Recorded Presentations

• SAP BI4.1 SP4 & 5 technology update | myBrainshark
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP5 (1:40)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP4 (1:10)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP3 (1:37)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2 (3:02)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 (5:27)interactive / video

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Slides

Client Specific Content

• BI 4.0 New Features and Changes - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Recorded Presentations

• Concept - What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 - YouTube
• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3: Web Intelligence 4.0 FP3 - YouTube
• Concept: What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5: Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 - YouTube
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 (2:04)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 (4:20)interactive/ video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 (6:25)interactive /video

SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

• What's New in SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

Webinars covering all things important for BI projects. Register for upcoming sessions or watch recordings of past events.

Technical Webinar Series: Upgrading to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1

Once again will we provide a series of free webinars that are focused on upgrading to the SAP BI Platform 4.1. This webinar series is a supplement to other information assets found on SCN.

Webinar title, date, registration and presenter information is given below - all webinars will start at 7am PDT, unless otherwise specified. Webinar dates and times may be subject to change.

• Registration links: will be enabled a few days before the scheduled webinar date.
• Recordings: will be posted no later than a week after the event.

If you 'follow' this page, you will receive notifications of any updates, including new webinar content, dates and registration links - also recordings of all completed webinars will be made available from this page. Stay Tuned !

Upcoming Webinars - Registrations		Date	Presenter
	What's new in SAP BI 4.2	Oct 27	ME
	Design Studio Templates and the BI Platform	Nov 24	HJ
	Gain insight into your BI Platform with new Auditing Universe and Reports	Dec 08	MS
	SAP BI Platform Support Tool 2.0 - Improved administration and Supportability	Jan 19	TJ
	Data Federation Admin Tool – Tuning Execution of Multi-Source Universes	Feb 16	SP
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Recordings of Past Webinars		Date	Presenter
	UNX Adoption - Planning & Execution (by APOS Systems) (recording | pdf)	Sep 29	FW,HJ
	Creating Relational Connections for SAP BI 4.1 for Reporting on SAP BW (recording)	Aug 04	JR
	User Authentication and Single Sign-On with BI 4.1 (recording)	Jul 21	GDL
	Sizing your BI Platform, using the SAP Sizing Tool (recording)	Jul 07	HJ
	What's new in BI 4.1 SP6 (recording | presentation)	Jun 23	ME
	Best Practices for WebI (recording)	Jun 23	JB
	A guided Tour: How to best make use of Online Resources (recording)	May 18	HB
	BI 4.1 Monitoring - (Recording)	Nov 13	TJ
	Troubleshooting - (Recording)	Nov 06	GS
	Promotion Management & Version Management - (Recording)	Oct 23	MS
	WebI Calculation Engine Changes - (Recording)	Oct 16	PG
	DeskI to WebI Conversion & Desktop Compatibility Pack - (Recording)	Oct 09	ME
	Upgrading from XI Release 2/3.1 to 4.1 and updating From BI 4.0 to 4.1 - (Recording)	Sep 25	ME
	User Authentication & Single Sign-On - (Recording)	Sep 11	TZ
	BusinessObjects BI Strategy & Roadmap - (Recording)	Sep 09	JL
	Installation & Patching - (Recording)	Sep 04	HJ
	Deployment Best Practices - (Recording)	Aug 29	HJ
	Sizing & Virtualization - (Recording)	Aug 14	CL
	Update Best Practices - (Recording)	Jul 30	SR
	Value Prop & Tools - (Recording)	Jul 17	HB

Where can I find my version number?

You can find the version number (also referred to as the build number) for your software in several locations, including:

• On Windows, in the Add or Remove Programs dialog. The update indicates the current level.

• In the Help > About menu of most BI platform client tools, such as the universe design tool.

What does my version number mean?

The version number of your software appears as 14.x.y.abc. This number corresponds to a particular Support Package (or Feature Pack) and Patch level as follows:

• 14 = Major release 4.0/2011.
• x = Minor release number.
• y = Support Package level.
• abc = Build number corresponding to your Patch level.

For example, 14.0.2.481 corresponds to 4.0 Support Package 2 Patch 6, or Patch 2.6.

The following table lists the version numbers for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0, and what Feature Pack (FP), Support Package (SP), and Patch level the version number corresponds to. These levels are the same for both the client and server installation programs and also apply to SAP Crystal Server 2011.

Where can I find version information for BI platform 4.1 and Crystal Server 2013?

Starting in 4.1, the installation program creates and updates a version.txt file where you can check the current version of your BI platform server installation. The file is located at:

• <BIP_INSTALL_DIR>/sap_bobj/enterprise_xi40/linux_x64/version/ (Unix)
• <BIP_INSTALL_DIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\version\ (Windows)

This file contains the build number and version name for the last update applied to your installation. For example:

14.1.0.981

4.1 Patch 2

See "Checking the installed version" in the following installation guides:

• Installation Guide for Unix
• Installation Guide for Windows
• Minor Release Update Guide

Where can I find version information for previous SAP BusinessObjects releases?

Version information for previous software releases can be found in the following articles:

• SAP Note 1287906: How to determine the version number of BusinessObjects XI 3.x in Windows
• Crystal Reports 2008 (and 9.1, XI R1, XI R2) - Version and Download information for Service Packs

Table 1: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0

Table 2: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1

Hi All,

I just want to share my experience which may help to many BI folks to resolve their issues when create or running webi Reports. Due to unsupport java we may can see below error.

"Unspecified error invoking method or accessing property "onChangeDocID"

Replication steps: Logged on and selected the Webi  Icon, select Web Intelligence Document, select Universe, Looked at universe list to make sure I didn’t see any restricted universes.  Selected universe and created a new Webi report.  When I ran the report, may get above error, however, as you can see report data did return but when select close of X out of the error, report will disappears.

Cause: Unsupported java Version

Resolution:

Update java version later to Java 1.0.7_51

Reference Note: Same issue mentioned in the below SAP note: 1933283 - Error: "Unspecified error invoking method or accessing property "onChangeDocID" " when refreshing a new WebI report after choosing query elements.

Issue will be no longer occurred after Java version 7 update 45 .

But in you case you are in Java Update 51. Hence i would request you to clear the Java cache and try the same flow.

To clear java cache:

Navigate to control panel --> Java --> On general tab --> Temporary file settings --> Delete files --> ok.

Restart browsers and retest.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Venky

Hi All,

I would like to share my experience how to overcome CMC login issues due to port issues.

When may require to add static request port for CMS for specific reasons. For ex: when setup multi domain config for promotion management. When we enter wrong/conflict port at the request port or named space port, we can not login CMC at all and we will get below error.

We can not login to CMC to revert back the ports we entered. So below is the alternative way to revert back your port changed for the specific servers in the CMC. Here I am showing for CMS as it will be the show stopper for the CMC.

For ex: if I gave the request port as 6401 as below.

Actual request ports should be 6408 or 6409 or from 6411 based on the network settings.

Also when maintaining request port make sure select the "name server port" with "user default settings" rather than with 6400.

So to revert back navigate to the application server C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\ and modify “_boe_hostname.bootstrap” file proper ties by comparing existing working version if any.

Wrong port maintenance tag looks like as below: (this may vary based on the server or port or any other reason. Best way to compare this file whole code with working environment).

• <property flags="0" name="SI_ARGS" type="String">-startedBySIA -requestport 6408 -port 6400</property>

then change it to original version to login back to CMC and then give the desired valid port. (Recommended)

• <property name="SI_ARGS" type="String" flags="0"/>

or if you want to set correct ports here itself update as below.

<property name="SI_ARGS" type="String" flags="0">-startedBySIA -requestport 6408</property>

Hope this helps.

I gave very high level, please feel free to ask if any clarifications in this.

Thanks

Venky

Hi,

What is Lcm_cli.bat ?

It is Command line interface for running the  Promotion Management when you wanted to migrate the content more than 100+ objects between SAP Business Intelligence BI 4.x environment.

When using GUI method i.e. Promotion Management it is not possible to migrate/create a lcmbiar file with more than 100+ objects.

• The promotion management command line tool takes a properties file as a parameter. The properties file contains the required parameters to communicate the promotion management tool about the actions to perform, system(s) to connection to, connection methods, objects to promote, and so on.
• The file must be in the form of <File Name>.properties
• Please refer to the Administrators guide for a complete list of parameters to use with Lcm_cli.bat

Files Included :

1. .bat script file which is used to run the tool. ( Name : SAPLCMCLI.bat )
2. 3 Job Properties Files for Users and User's Groups, Dependent Objects, Primary Objects (Job1_userandgroups.properties , Job2_dependencies.properties, Job3_primaryobjects.properties)

Purpose

I have created a script which can be used to backup the full environment (Users, Dependent Objects, Primary Objects) using Lcm_cli.bat file. Either you can run the script manually or you can schedule it which will automatically take the backup according to the Recurrence set in in the Task Scheduler of Operating System i.e. Windows in this case.

This script will create 3 different LCMBIAR files for Users, Dependent Objects, Primary Objects which can be used to import using the lcm_cli.bat tool if needed.

Pre-requisites:

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0\4.1 should be installed on the machine.
• Ensure to Run the BAT file as “Run as Administrator”
• For Better Results ensure you make the changes for Resources using KBA - "1969259 - LCM CLI Master Note - How to promote thousands of objects across BI4 environments" For More queries and Sample queries.
  
• Changes need to be done in SAPLCMCLI.bat file for “Working Directory" if you are placing the folder in C: Drive then you don't need to do the changes in .bat and .properties files too.

1. Download the Folder and place the folder in any drive ( For example : E:\BackupBI , D:\BackupBI or try to keep shortest path to avoid naming Character limitation)
2. Open in SAPLCMCLI.bat in any Text Editor and make the changes below :

• Change the Information according to your server in .properties files and also the export location which you have changed :

Steps to RUN the Script :

• If you wanted to run the script only 1 Time or manually run the script you can simply navigate to the location (Current : C:\BackupBI\SAPLCMCLI.bat )

• Below is the result what you will get after running the script :

• The Backup Files will be generated in the same location where the script folder is placed (Ex : C:\BackupBI\Backup ) and renamed to the date when it was modified.

===============================================================================================================

Steps to Perform Automatic Backup :

• You need to follow the same processor before starting this step because it will verify whether all the properties files and bat file is running perfect and giving the results.

• Open Task Scheduler in the Windows.

• Choose Create Basic Task

• It will open the Main Window of Task Organizer and Fill in the Information according to your purpose.

• Schedule the recurrence in the Trigger i.e. Daily/Weekly/Monthly etc.

• Choose the recurrence Time :

• In the Action Menu Choose : Start the Program

• Verify the Information and then click on Finish.

• It will generate the same results and will take automatic backup as per your need and append the Date with the File Name.

DOWNLOAD LINK : SAPLCM_CLI Package

Hope this will help.

Regards,

Mahak