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Deployment and Configuration of BI4.x on AWS

December 10, 2015, 5:39 am
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Deployment and Configuration of BI4.x on AWS

 

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS

 

 

Prerequisites:

 

Installing SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

Installing SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on an AWS instance is not different from deploying the software on any OnPrem machine.

 

If you are not familiar with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x, please start reading the (depending on the version you plan to deploy)

 

Become familiar with the release restriction of the planned version to be installed:

 

Once you have the full understanding in the deployment process for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x you can follow the Installation Guide:



Configuring SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

Configuring SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on an AWS is not different from deploying the software on any On Premise machine.

for reference on configuring your BI4.x system, please go through the following documents:

 

 

Maintaining SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

After a successful deployment, it is key to keep you BI4x system maintained.. Below you'll find a listing of content that may help you in maintaining your BI4.x deployment

 

 

 

Updating SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

Updating SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS on not different from updating an On Premise deployment..

for reference on updating an existing BI4.x system, please go through the following documents:

 

 

Support for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x running on AWS

 

As Amazon Web Services has been certified for deployment of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x, you can leverage the normal support procedure for issues you encounter with your system. SAP Support however will have the rights to request a reproduction of the issue using an normal (non virtualized) (on premise) system is there are strong indications the issue has relation to the virtualization layer of Amazon Web Services or the Specific deployment settings required to connect into Amazon Web Services.

 

for requesting support via the SAP Support please connect to the Incident Wizard available on the SAP Support Page via Report an Incident | SAP Support Portal



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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Supported Platforms (PAM)

May 9, 2013, 10:01 am
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Supported Platforms (PAM) for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 and above. This presentation describes compatibility with external platforms and technologies.

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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SP05+ Supported Platforms (PAM)

November 14, 2012, 5:47 am
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Supported Platforms (PAM) for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 SP05 and above. This presentation describes compatibility with external platforms and technologies.

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SAP BI 4.x - Solution Expert Webinars

July 3, 2014, 11:21 pm
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Webinars covering all things important for BI projects. Register for upcoming sessions or watch recordings of past events.

OverviewTop Online ResourcesTutorialsEvents

Technical Webinar Series: SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x

 

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

DatePresenter
registration 2.pngSAP BI Platform Support Tool 2.0 - Improved administration and SupportabilityJan 19TJ
registration 2.pngData Federation Admin Tool – Tuning Execution of Multi-Source UniversesFeb 16SP
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Recordings of Past Webinars

DatePresenter
thumbnail.pngGain insight into your BI Platform with a new Auditing Universe and Reports (recording)Dec 08MS
thumbnail.pngSAP Analytics - Integration of SAP BI Platform with SAP Design Studio (recording)Nov 24HJ
thumbnail.pngWhat's new in SAP BI 4.2 (recording | pdf)Oct 27ME
thumbnail.pngUNX Adoption - Planning & Execution (by APOS Systems) (recording | pdf)Sep 29FW,HJ
thumbnail.pngCreating Relational Connections for SAP BI 4.1 for Reporting on SAP BW (recording)Aug 04JR
thumbnail.pngUser Authentication and Single Sign-On with BI 4.1 (recording)Jul 21GDL
thumbnail.pngSizing your BI Platform, using the SAP Sizing Tool (recording)Jul 07HJ
thumbnail.pngWhat's new in BI 4.1 SP6 (recording | presentation)Jun 23ME
thumbnail.pngBest Practices for WebI (recording)Jun 23JB
thumbnail.pngA guided Tour: How to best make use of Online Resources (recording)May 18HB
thumbnail.pngBI 4.1 Monitoring - (Recording)Nov 13TJ
thumbnail.pngTroubleshooting - (Recording)Nov 06GS
thumbnail.pngPromotion Management & Version Management - (Recording)Oct 23MS
thumbnail.pngWebI Calculation Engine Changes - (Recording)Oct 16PG
thumbnail.pngDeskI to WebI Conversion & Desktop Compatibility Pack - (Recording)Oct 09ME
thumbnail.pngUpgrading from XI Release 2/3.1 to 4.1 and updating From BI 4.0 to 4.1 - (Recording)Sep 25ME
thumbnail.pngUser Authentication & Single Sign-On - (Recording)Sep 11TZ
thumbnail.pngBusinessObjects BI Strategy & Roadmap - (Recording)Sep 09JL
thumbnail.pngInstallation & Patching - (Recording)Sep 04HJ
thumbnail.pngDeployment Best Practices - (Recording)Aug 29HJ
thumbnail.pngSizing & Virtualization - (Recording)Aug 14CL
thumbnail.pngUpdate Best Practices - (Recording)Jul 30SR
thumbnail.pngValue Prop & Tools - (Recording)Jul 17HB

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Webinars: SAP Lumira | SAP Predictive | EPM | SAP Design Studio | Web IDE

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Create Tab Menu for BO & Webi reports in BI Launchpad using BI Workspace

August 26, 2015, 2:23 am
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Objective: Create Tab Menu for reports instead of providing reports in Folders.

 

Introduction: BI Workspace is customizable interface which allow multiple documents like Dashboard, Webi reports and other documents together into a single viewand the same can be deliver to specific groups or users. We can make own Menu tabs for report and create multiple workspaces for specific group of users like sales users, management users etc as per business requirement.

 

Create BI Workspace:


Step 1: Login into BI launch pad with administrator rights, click on Application and then BI Workspace.

 

 

Step 2: Now add new tab and set the column and put the name as per requirement. (We can add multiple tab or sub tabs) 

Note: in this scenario, two tabs ‘Sales Reports’ and ‘Inventory Reports’ are added, In Sales Reports tab further two sub tabs are added as ‘BO Report-1’ and ‘BO Report-2’


 

 

Step 3: Now Navigate to public module in Module Library (Left side)


 

Step 4: Open the folder in which Dashboard and Webi reports are saved and then drag and drop on the workspace background.


 

Step 5: Save the BI Workspace in public folder.

 

Step 6: Change BI Launch pad preferences for specific users or group as per requirement.


 

Hope this Document helps to create Menu base tabs in SAP BI Launch pad. Suggestion and comments are welcome which help to improve this Documents.

 

 

Thanks,

Kashif Ali Khan

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SAP BusinessObjects What's New Collection

November 24, 2014, 12:54 am
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This page provides an overview of the available What's New Materials for the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x Suite

 

 

SAP Lumira

 

 

 

 

 

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New Slides

 

 

 

 

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Slides

 

 

Client Specific Content

 

 

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Recorded Presentations

 

 

 

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Slides

 

 

Client Specific Content

 

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Recorded Presentations

 

 

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

 

 

SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

 

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Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS

February 23, 2015, 1:36 am
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SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x is being certified and supported for deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Via this document we provide you with all the steps to deploy SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on a Amazon Web Services hosted system.

 

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is currently available in various geographic locations:

  • US
    • East (North Virginia)
    • West (Oregon)
    • West (N. California)
  • EU
    • Ireland
    • Frankfurt - Germany)
  • Asia Pacific
    • Singapore
    • Tokyo
    • Sydney
  • South America
    • São Paulo

for the latest list of locations, please check Global Infrastructure

 

It is strongly recommended to select a AWS location nearby your (organizations) datacenter / datasource to reduce a potential performance impact due to network latency.


Before deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.4, please read the SAP Note around SAP Application on AWS: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1656099


 

 

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STEP 1: Sizing

  • Sizing requirements
  • Sizing for AWS
  • Sizing Recourses
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STEP 2 : Provisioning

  • Log into your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account
  • Select Instance Type
  • Create EC2 Instance
  • Launch and Configure Instance
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STEP 3 : Connect and Roll-Out

  • Assign an Elastic IP Address
  • Connect to Instance
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STEP 4: Deployment and configuration of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

  • Download SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Installer
  • Run Installer
  • Configure SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1
  • Connect SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Client Tools

 

STEP 5: Connect to SAP HANA One (AWS)

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After Cluster SAP BI Platform 4.x " SIA (server intelligence agent) for this server is unavailable " for Node-2

January 11, 2016, 3:02 am
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Symptom:Trying to cluster 2 servers together using proper method of creating new SIA on BI Server 2 pointing it to same CMS DB as BI server 1. unable to start the BI Server 2 Node Servers.


Error: The Server Intelligence Agent for this server is unavailable 


Reproducing the Issue:


Environment :

  • Windows 2008 64 bit -BI Server 1, Windows 2008 - BI Server 2
  • SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 Support Pack 5 (Version: 14.1.5.1501)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008

 

Cause: Microsoft The issues is with the TCP/IP local host issue.



Resolution:


  1. Add the local ip address to WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
  2. Login to the Central Management Console(CMC) -> Servers -> Nodes -> Select Node-2
  3. Double click on AdaptiveJobServer and select IP Address and assign the local ip address of BI Server-2 in the below mentioned image.
  4. Restart the SIA of BI Server-2  in Central Configuration Manager (CCM).
  5. The Server in the nodes-2 will start automatically.

 

 

Regards,

Akhilesh Kiran.


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BI@AWS 01 : Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system for AWS Deployments

July 20, 2015, 7:25 am
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Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system for AWS Deployments

 

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS


SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x is being certified and supported for deployments on various Cloud Solutions, via this document we provide you the required sizing recommendations before you start deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 on Amazon Web Services.



 

Supported Cloud Offerings for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

Current SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 is being certified and supported on the following Cloud Solutions:

  1. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
  2. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  3. Microsoft Azure

 

This document will focus on deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on an AWS Instance and refer to relevant pre-read documentation to ensure your AWS instance is well prepared for deploying SAP Software.

 


Sizing your AWS deployment for BI4.x

For a deployment of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x there is no difference in sizing an on-premise solution, it is strongly recommended to execute a full sizing of your planned deployment by leveraging the content provided in Sizing and Deploying SAP BI 4 and SAP Lumira

 

As the sizing definition for your SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system will be provided in a number of SAPS, you do have to validate the instance configuration of the EC2 systems with the number of SAPS provisioned by the AWS instance. An nice overview over translating the ECU's of AWS into SAPS can be found here : BI in the cloud: sizing SAPS and ECUs on AWS servers

 

 

Additional interesting food for your brains before starting you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x deployment on AWS

 




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BI@AWS 02 : Provisioning a AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

February 23, 2015, 5:21 am
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Provisioning a Amazon Web Services instance for SAP BusinessObject BI4.x

 

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS

 

You can provision an Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance by selecting a system meeting your sizing requirements as defined in an earlier steps. If you have not yet defined a sizing for your SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x deployment on AWS, please start reading the sizing guidelines available on : BI@AWS 01 : Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system for AWS Deployments

 

 

 

Prerequisites:

 

Provisioning an AWS Instance

 

  1. Create your VPC (AWS VPC setup) or reuse one you already have in place
  2. Ensure you selected the correct region to where you want to deploy your image
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  3. Within the homescreen of AWS, select EC2 for the creation of a new instance

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  4. Select "Launch Instance" to startup a new instance
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  5. Select the operating system of your choice which is supported by the SAP BusinessObjects BI version of your choice. To validate supported Operated Systems, please check the Product Availability Report via : https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/pam
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    For the example, a Windows 2012 R2 Base system will be deployed

  6. Select the required instance size. the instance size is key for running a well performing BI4.x deployment and is recommended to be memory optimized. For understanding the translation of Instance Types, please ensure you have executed a correct sizing and translation of ECU into SAPS as described in Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 system for AWS Deployments
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    For this example I'll deploy the BI4.x system against the memory optimized r3.2xlarge model.
  7. Select "Next: Configure Instance Details" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") as we have a few more configurations to take care of during initialization

    Within the Configure Instance Details ensure you select the following items correclty
    - Network : Select the VPC as created for step 1
    - Subnet : if you have instances within AWS, ensure you select the same subnet if you want to connect into these AWS instances as well
    - Auto-Assign Public IP : Recommendation is to disable the auto-assign mode as it is recommended to work with a Elastic IP (default auto assigned IP's can changed after restarting your Instance).. We will later assign a Elastic IP to the system
    - Shutdown Behavior : Leave this to Stop, unless you want to have the instance terminated at shutdown (all data will be lost)
    - Optional : Enable Termination Protection
    - Optional : Enable Monitoring (note: additional costs are involved)
    - Optional : Enable EBS-optimized instance (note: additional costs are involved)
    - Optional : Select you instance to be Dedicated (note: additional costs are involved)
    - Optional : Enable the request for Spot Instances

    AWS06.jpg

  8. Select "Next: Add Storage" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") as we have a few more configurations to take care of during initialization

    By default a new image is create with a 30Gb Disk. To ensure enough diskspace is available for the deployment of SAP BusinessObjects, we need to add additional capacity.
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    In the example setup, we'll create / enhance the following disks:
    - Increase capacity in the default disk to 80Gb
    - Add new disk with a capacity of 128Gb (for installing SAP BusinessObjects and future updates)
    - Add new disk with a capacity of 64 Gb (for storing the Windows Page File)
    Note : adding disk capacity influences the costs of your AWS Instance
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  9. Select "Next: Tag Instance" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") as we have a few more configurations to take care of during initialization

    In this example setup, We'll not going to add Tags. for details on how to use tags, please read : Tagging Your Amazon EC2 Resources - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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  10. Select "Next: Configure Security Group" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") to enter the final detail for your initial Instance Creation

    Security Groups will configure the firewall settings for your Instance. for details on Security Groups, please read : Amazon EC2 Security Groups for Linux Instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. To enable access into the BI Launchpad and Central Management Console of the BI Platform, we have to enable access to the port for the Web Application Server. For enabling communication by the BI Platform into other server hosted within AWS we potentially need to configure the ports for BIP communications.

    In this example setup, we create a new security group "BI42" and enable the port 8080 (as we will use the default Tomcat) as well as a port range (6400-6599) for future inter-AWS communication.
    AWS12.jpg
    Enabling port 8080 or 3389 (RDP) for "Anywhere" is not recommended, but for the sake of the example deployment currently used. Typically you want to have your organizations External or Internal IP ranges being enable for these ports, which can be set via "Custom IP"

    The BIP Port Range is being assigned to the IP Range as used by the VPC as being defined in step 1

  11. We are now ready with the initial setup of the Instance and van hit the "Review and Launch" button. This will provide us the overview of settings applied during the previous steps. Review your settings and when OK, "Launch" your image to become created.

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  12. During the launch, you will be requested to select an existing key pair of create a new one. The Key Pair is required to connect into your system. for details around the AWS Key Pair, please read : Amazon EC2 Key Pairs - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

    In this example setup, we'll create a new Key Pair "BI42@AWS" and download the file to the local machine for later use.
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  13. After creating / reusing a Key Pair, You'll be able to launch you instance.
    You are informed about the Launch Status and by selecting View Instance, you will be directed to the EC2 Instances listing to validate the progress
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  14. Check if the instance is initializing

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  15. Once Initialized, a public IP has to be assigned to enable the remote access.
    As we selected not to assign a public IP, the instance cannot yet be reached from outside AWS.
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    for deploying the instance against a Public IP and connecting with remote desktop (windows OS), please continue with step 3 in the process available via : BI@AWS 03 : Connecting to an AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

 

 

 

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BI@AWS 03 : Connecting to an AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

December 4, 2015, 7:33 am
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Connecting to an AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS


You can connect to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance by selecting a system meeting your sizing requirements as defined in an earlier steps. If you have not yet provisioned an AWS Instance for your SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x deployment , please start reading the provisioning guidelines available on : BI@AWS 02 : Provisioning a AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

 

 

Prerequisites:

 

 

 

Assign Elastic IP:

 

  1. Have your AWS Image up and running in your preferred region
  2. Note the fact that no Public IP has been assigned in the sample setup. If you have a public IP assigned, please validate if this has been defined as a Elastic IP. In case you have no Elastic IP assigned, your Public IP may change after restarting your Image, driving potential issues while connecting into your SAP BusinessObjects environment. Additionally it is not recommended to have the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform (BIP) being deployed against a dynamic IP, as BIP has bindings with the IP.

    AWS18.jpg
  3. To assign a static public IP, we have to create a Elastic IP.
    for information about the Elastic IP, please check : Elastic IP Addresses - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

    Creating an Elastic IP can be done via the menu bar on the left under -> Network & Security -> Elastic IPsAWS19.jpg

  4. Navigate to "Elastic IPs" and select "Allocate New Address" to start the creation of an Elastic IP

    AWS20.jpg
  5. You will get a confirmation IF you want to allocate a new IP. Select "Yes, Allocate" to generate a new Elastic IP
    Note: Creating Elastic IP's without using them will result in an additional charge

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  6. Your Elastic IP is generated and can be assigned to your Instance
    AWS22.jpg
    The IP created will be listed under your Elastic IP's
    AWS23.jpg
  7. Now having the Elastic IP created, we can assign this to our Instance, enabling a fixed IP for usage outside AWS. To assign the IP to you Instance, select Action -> Associate Address
    AWS24.jpg
  8. Select the Instance ID from your system and confirm via "Associate"
    AWS25.jpg
  9. If we move back to the EC2 screens, we will see that the Elastic IP has been assigned to the Instance
    AWS26.jpg

 

Connecting to AWS Instance running Windows

 

Now that we have assigned a public IP to the AWS Instance, we can connect to the AWS instance using Microsoft Remote Desktop

 

  1. Before connecting to the Windows Instance, we need to set an Administrator password to enable a logon. To decode the Administrators password from the key file generated during instance a few steps are required. If you have already set your Windows Password, please continue with step 5

    - Select the instance you want to retrieve the Windows Password
    - Navigate to Actions -> Get Windows Password
    AWS27.jpg
  2. Choose the key pair file as stored while creating the instance
    AWS28.jpg
  3. Once the Key Pair is loaded, the value will be visible, select "Decrypt Password" to get the Windows PasswordAWS29.jpg
  4. The Windows Password is shown, note down to password or copy this for later use
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  5. Start your Remote Desktop via your preferred path :
    - Start -> Run -> mstcs.exe
    - Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Remote Desktop Connection
    - Start -> Run -> Remote Desktop

    Enter the IP Number as recorded for the Public IP of you Instance
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  6. On the Credentials Screen, enter you credentials to connect to the AWS Windows Instance. Please note to connect with .\Administrator to force the use of the local authentication model within the AWS Instance
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  7. Depending on your security settings, a security popup may appear
    AWS34.jpg
    Accept the warning (and if preferred select the tickbox "Don't ask me again for connections to this computer")
  8. You can now work on your AWS Instance and start the installation of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x. Please continue with : Deployment and Configuration of BI4x on AWS

 

 

Connecting to AWS Instance running Linux

 

To be added

 

 



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BI@AWS 04 : Deployment and Configuration of BI4.x on AWS

December 10, 2015, 5:39 am
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Deployment and Configuration of BI4.x on AWS

 

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS

 

 

Prerequisites:

 

Installing SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

Installing SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on an AWS instance is not different from deploying the software on any OnPrem machine.

 

If you are not familiar with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x, please start reading the (depending on the version you plan to deploy)

 

Become familiar with the release restriction of the planned version to be installed:

 

Once you have the full understanding in the deployment process for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x you can follow the Installation Guide:



Configuring SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

Configuring SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on an AWS is not different from deploying the software on any On Premise machine.

for reference on configuring your BI4.x system, please go through the following documents:

 

 

Maintaining SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

After a successful deployment, it is key to keep you BI4x system maintained.. Below you'll find a listing of content that may help you in maintaining your BI4.x deployment

 

 

 

Updating SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

 

Updating SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS on not different from updating an On Premise deployment..

for reference on updating an existing BI4.x system, please go through the following documents:

 

 

Support for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x running on AWS

 

As Amazon Web Services has been certified for deployment of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x, you can leverage the normal support procedure for issues you encounter with your system. SAP Support however will have the rights to request a reproduction of the issue using an normal (non virtualized) (on premise) system if there are strong indications the issue has relation to the virtualization layer of Amazon Web Services or the Specific deployment settings required to connect into Amazon Web Services.

 

for requesting support via the SAP Support please connect to the Incident Wizard available on the SAP Support Page via Report an Incident | SAP Support Portal



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SAP BI 4.x - Solution Expert Webinars

July 3, 2014, 11:21 pm
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Webinars covering all things important for BI projects. Register for upcoming sessions or watch recordings of past events.

OverviewTop Online ResourcesTutorialsEvents

Technical Webinar Series: SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x

 

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

DatePresenter
registration 2.pngSAP BI Platform Support Tool 2.0 - Deep Dive with the ExpertJan 19TJ
registration 2.pngData Federation Admin Tool – Tuning Execution of Multi-Source UniversesFeb 16SP
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Recordings of Past Webinars

DatePresenter
thumbnail.pngGain insight into your BI Platform with a new Auditing Universe and Reports (recording)Dec 08MS
thumbnail.pngSAP Analytics - Integration of SAP BI Platform with SAP Design Studio (recording)Nov 24HJ
thumbnail.pngWhat's new in SAP BI 4.2 (recording | pdf)Oct 27ME
thumbnail.pngUNX Adoption - Planning & Execution (by APOS Systems) (recording | pdf)Sep 29FW,HJ
thumbnail.pngCreating Relational Connections for SAP BI 4.1 for Reporting on SAP BW (recording)Aug 04JR
thumbnail.pngUser Authentication and Single Sign-On with BI 4.1 (recording)Jul 21GDL
thumbnail.pngSizing your BI Platform, using the SAP Sizing Tool (recording)Jul 07HJ
thumbnail.pngWhat's new in BI 4.1 SP6 (recording | presentation)Jun 23ME
thumbnail.pngBest Practices for WebI (recording)Jun 23JB
thumbnail.pngA guided Tour: How to best make use of Online Resources (recording)May 18HB
thumbnail.pngBI 4.1 Monitoring - (Recording)Nov 13TJ
thumbnail.pngTroubleshooting - (Recording)Nov 06GS
thumbnail.pngPromotion Management & Version Management - (Recording)Oct 23MS
thumbnail.pngWebI Calculation Engine Changes - (Recording)Oct 16PG
thumbnail.pngDeskI to WebI Conversion & Desktop Compatibility Pack - (Recording)Oct 09ME
thumbnail.pngUpgrading from XI Release 2/3.1 to 4.1 and updating From BI 4.0 to 4.1 - (Recording)Sep 25ME
thumbnail.pngUser Authentication & Single Sign-On - (Recording)Sep 11TZ
thumbnail.pngBusinessObjects BI Strategy & Roadmap - (Recording)Sep 09JL
thumbnail.pngInstallation & Patching - (Recording)Sep 04HJ
thumbnail.pngDeployment Best Practices - (Recording)Aug 29HJ
thumbnail.pngSizing & Virtualization - (Recording)Aug 14CL
thumbnail.pngUpdate Best Practices - (Recording)Jul 30SR
thumbnail.pngValue Prop & Tools - (Recording)Jul 17HB

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Webinars: SAP Lumira | SAP Predictive | EPM | SAP Design Studio | Web IDE

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BI4.2 Migration Question & Answer ASUG Webcast

December 6, 2015, 6:36 am
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Below is the Question & Answer from last week's ASUG BI Platform SIG webcast regarding migration/upgrade to BI4.2

 

Question                                                                                              Answer


Could you share the link for the slides again?https://www.asug.com/discussions/docs/DOC-42966
Link for the book drawing?http://bit.ly/1k7boZb
Will any of these tools allow for us to move all of our WEBI reports from UNV to UNX universe when we decide to convert all of our universes to IDTGood question; internal discussion; debating on having this; in UMT, if do migration, could introduce option - make sure unx of existing unv then re-link WebI docs - looking at best way to do that
we are doing migration of reports from BO 3 . to BI 4.1, is it advisable to upgradeBI 4.1 to 4.2 ? willit impact any miration ativtites ? can we move migrated objects from 4.2 Dev to 4.1 Q system ?4.2 is an update - in place; 4.2 to 4.1 is not possible
Do we have to use promotion manager to migrate crystal reports 2013 from non-prod to production ?Yes
It lookslike Promotion Manager is still designed to only work with one origin and one destinaion. How do you use overrides if you use the same instace of Promotion Manager to migrate from Dev to Test, from Test to Qual and from Qual to Prod?Have a wiki to explain this; a simple case to have both dev QA - identify as origin systems (refer to wiki) http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Promotion+Management+Features+Support
Is Flash gone from BI4.2?Unfortunately no, gone from Promotion Manager, but monitoring is still Flash-based. BI Workspace use some
does UMT show migration results ? Current t does not show summary objects migratedHaven't changed that process; good input; log at Idea place - ideas.sap.com
Do I need to use name license to use these tools?Promotion Manager - delegated admins, or power users use it - it is not restricted by license type - more in terms of rights on the object
Will UMT support same-version promotion?no
Does 4.2 remove flash requirement from promotion manager?from promotion manager yes - replaced by HTML5 where possible
What kind of report verfication we need to do afer migration ?depend on the content and report type - WebI has micro cubes, so if calc change, validation is required
Is upgrading from BOBJ 4.1 to 4.2 a straight forawrd system upgrade unlike BOBJ3.1 to bobj 4.1. Pls advise.It is an in-place update, not an upgrade
is there any SAP note which lists common issues of reports after migration ?Web Intelligence does update article on calculation engine changes on SCN
Will we ever be able to validate data of reports or metadata after migrating (to see any possible issues where calc engine modifies data) ?SAP is looking into this - a possible report validation tool. Not conclude discussions
What is the link to the overrides Wiki mentioned?http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Promotion+Management+Features+Support
Does UMT support migrating dashboad, Qaaws ?Not sure; thinks so
Any plans to replace the CMS as the backbone of the BI platform or move it to HANA? It seems to be getting old and a roadblock in larger deployments due to performanceCMS on HANA is an option considering; did some benchmarking on HANA vs relational DBs and see HANA performing better
When is 4.2 officially available (not Ramp-up) for users?Planned for end of Q1 next year
Great Q&A - thank you Maheshwar and ASUG!Thank you all for attending!
We can't use admin account supplied by sap in bi, we created admin like ad account and for that user, when we run these client tools what license do we need for the newly created account?Can give admin CSB license


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Join us this week for another BI4.2 ASUG webcast  - Improvements in Managing the BI Platform - register here

 

Related links:

 

Upgrade microsite: www.sapbusinessobjectsbi.com now SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions | The tools you need for high-performing implementations

BI Innovation Value Calculator: www.sap.com/BIcalculator

BI Upgrade Value Calculator : www.sap.com/BIupgradecalc

Web Intelligence calculation engine changes:  BI 4 How To: Identifying Necessary Changes for Web Intelligence Upgrade

BI Platform Features by version matrix:  BI Platform Feature by Version Matrix

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December 10, 2015, 2:39 am
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Thanks to SAP's Maheshwar Singh, we had an active question and answer on yesterday's ASUG webcast

 

 

Question & Answer

 

Q: How often are the Developer teams using SAP Idea Place to look at Customer Requests and Votes..?

A: Maheshwar does that quite frequently

 

 

 

Q: Support for MS-OFFICE 2016 will be available soon..?

A: Evaluate that - PAM document will be updated when certified.

 

 

 

Q: Design Studio Audit data is not like the data captured for Webi and Crystal, will that be enhanced?

A: Yes, that is true, idea is to improve all auditing going forward including Design Studio

 

 

 

Q: Writing alerts using the expression language in CMC Monitoring is extremely cumbersome just to check if a system is online/offline ; and the interface is complex; any change this will be simplified?

A: Need to rethink; find it complex; rather do administrative type monitoring that easy to use - evaluating a proposal; perhaps include in the influence council

 

 

 

Q: Will Audit data be enhanced to capture meaningful data for duration_ms (to capture more of the components duration) and for Design Studio and other addins?

A: For Design Studio, yes begin capturing - next version of Analysis Office will be audited. Lumira, no, but next version of Lumira should support auditing.

 

 

 

Q: Will you be providing any standard content (universes, canned reports etc) for BusinessObjects auditing? Similar to BW Statistics

A:  See this: Unlock the Auditing database with a new Universe and Web Intelligence Documents for BI4.1

 

 

Q: Can you share a link where we can participate in influence council for this aspect? (admin cockpit, etc.)

A: CEI is now closed; please consider joining -  POST data or see https://influence.sap.com/BusinessObjectsBIPlatform2016

 

 

Q: We currently have BI41 with Design Studio 1.6, after the upgrade to BI4.2 do we need to reinstall DS1.6 for 4.2?

A: Looking at introducing new license key for 4.2 if you go with that route may need to reinstall otherwise no impact - depends on proposal

 

 

Q: Has a release date for 4.2 been announced yet?

A: Looking at tentative timeline of end of Q1 or early Q2 - need to meet KPI's for rampup

 

 

Q: Admin cockpit has longest running reports or jobs? If either...can you drill down to details to where it is taking the most time?

A: Not at this time. Trying to see if case log files - seeing if feasible.

 

 

Q: Is Administrators Cockpit configurable? - Where are RunTime stats coming from - auditdb ? cmsdb?

A: Not in 4.2; doing some ideation with customers to find out what would like to configuration

 

 

Q: Although the recycle bin is in the CMC does it catch documents that are deleted by Launchpad users?

A: Yes, any content that is part of the public folder is caught by recycle bin - plan to include recycle bin for launchpad users

 

 

Q: Will there be any enhancements for Design Studio on BI platform, especially in the area of bookmark administration & folders?

A: BI platform is choice for Design Studio going forward. Commentary in future coming. Bookmark admin - some discussions happening; not closed

 

 

Q: Will the new BI platform customer connection program influence BI4.3? Will there be a 4.3? https://influence.sap.com/BusinessObjectsBIPlatform2016

A: Good question - Customer Connection - not 4.3 really, could influence SP for 4.2. First SP's may include customer connect request or SP after. There will likely be a 4.3 but still don't have 4.2 out the door. Under discussion

 

 

Q: Does Lumira for BI platform work with BI4.2 or is it dependent on a certain platform?

A: The current version 1.29 w/ SP3 now supports BI 4.2

 

 

Q: When will all the "hidden" FLASH Browser Dependencies in CMC and Launchpad be REMOVED from those interfaces..?

A: 4.2 remove flash dependencies from Promotion Manager; now HTML5. Flash today continues to exist in CMC for monitoring. BI Workspace has 1 component for Flash. Crystal Reports has flash in the prompts page. Need to remove.

 

 

Related:

The SAP User Group in France shared this with ASUG yesterday:


A new focus topic (Customer Connection) BI Platform will begin the January 8.

 

https://influence.sap.com/BusinessObjectsBIPlatform2016

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December 14, 2015, 4:00 am
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This API  will retrieve Metadata from a crystal report. The response will include following information:

  • Database connection, tables, aliases, joins, fields used in the document and all its associated properties. It should list fields from CrossTabs as well (see Response format)
  • Parameters of the report
  • Formula fields of the report
  • Parameter fields of the report
  • Special fields of the report
  • Filters and all expressions, calculations involved in the report
  • It will contain similar information for sub reports as well

 

The URI is:  http://<baseURI>/infostore/<reportID>/rpt/structure
Make a GET request to retrieve the report summary information.
Request:
Method: GET
URI: http://<baseURI>/infostore/<reportID>/rpt/structure
Request header attributes: X-SAP-LogonToken
Request body: none


Note: Pre-Requisite for retrieving metadata is toLogon to RestService with below URL and set the header with X-SAP-LogonToken

http://BOEServerIP:6405/biprws/logon/long

 

Response:
The response contains report summary as shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns17:reportstructurexmlns:ns2="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/connection" xmlns:ns3="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/dbfield" xmlns:ns4="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/table" xmlns:ns5="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/datasource"xmlns:ns6="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/fieldlink" xmlns:ns7="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/join" xmlns:ns8="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/datasources" xmlns:ns9="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/usedfield" xmlns:ns10="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/parameter"xmlns:ns11="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/parametergroup" xmlns:ns12="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/parameters" xmlns:ns13="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/formula" xmlns:ns14="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/groupcondition"xmlns:ns15="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/summaryfield" xmlns:ns16="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/runningtotalfield" xmlns:ns17="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/reportstructure">
<datasources>
<datasource>
<datasourcename>10.160.192.101 - Oracle12c_JDBC_Connection_5</datasourcename>
<connection>
<cuid>AUy28zmbGthPtalH6n3Gshg</cuid>
<kind>SQL</kind>
<networklayer>JDBC</networklayer>
<database>Oracle 12</database>
</connection>
<tables>
<table>
<name>CUSTOMER</name>
<tablekind>SQL_Table</tablekind>
<dbfields>
<dbfield>
<name>CUST_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>CUST_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.CUST_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>FIRST_NAME</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>FIRST_NAME</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.FIRST_NAME</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>LAST_NAME</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>LAST_NAME</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.LAST_NAME</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>AGE</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>AGE</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.AGE</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>PHONE_NUMBER</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>PHONE_NUMBER</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.PHONE_NUMBER</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>ADDRESS</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>ADDRESS</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.ADDRESS</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>CITY_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.CITY_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>SALES_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>SALES_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.SALES_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>SPONSOR_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>SPONSOR_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.SPONSOR_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
</dbfields>
</table>
<table>
<name>CITY</name>
<tablekind>SQL_Table</tablekind>
<dbfields>
<dbfield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>CITY_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CITY.CITY_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>CITY</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>CITY</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CITY.CITY</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>REGION_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>REGION_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CITY.REGION_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
</dbfields>
</table>
</tables>
</datasource>
<joins>
<join>
<sourcetable>CUSTOMER</sourcetable>
<kind>FullOuter</kind>
<targettable>CITY</targettable>
<fieldlinks>
<fieldlink>
<fromfield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>DatabaseField</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
</fromfield>
<fieldlinkOperator>NotEqual</fieldlinkOperator>
<tofield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>DatabaseField</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
</tofield>
</fieldlink>
</fieldlinks>
</join>
</joins>
</datasources>
<usedfields>
<usedfield fieldtype="DatabaseField" uniqueid="{CITY.CITY}" name="CITY"/>
<usedfield fieldtype="DatabaseField" uniqueid="{CUSTOMER.FIRST_NAME}" name="FIRST_NAME"/>
<usedfield fieldtype="DatabaseField" uniqueid="{CUSTOMER.LAST_NAME}" name="LAST_NAME"/>
</usedfields>
</ns17:reportstructure>

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This white paper describes a setup of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 using AIX operating system. BI4 is used together with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror in a way that simulates an active-passive failover scenario.

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Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system for AWS Deployments

 

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS


SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x is being certified and supported for deployments on various Cloud Solutions, via this document we provide you the required sizing recommendations before you start deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 on Amazon Web Services.



 

Supported Cloud Offerings for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

Current SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 is being certified and supported on the following Cloud Solutions:

  1. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
  2. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  3. Microsoft Azure

 

This document will focus on deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on an AWS Instance and refer to relevant pre-read documentation to ensure your AWS instance is well prepared for deploying SAP Software.

 


Sizing your AWS deployment for BI4.x

For a deployment of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x there is no difference in sizing an on-premise solution, it is strongly recommended to execute a full sizing of your planned deployment by leveraging the content provided in Sizing and Deploying SAP BI 4 and SAP Lumira

 

As the sizing definition for your SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system will be provided in a number of SAPS, you do have to validate the instance configuration of the EC2 systems with the number of SAPS provisioned by the AWS instance. An nice overview over translating the ECU's of AWS into SAPS can be found here : BI in the cloud: sizing SAPS and ECUs on AWS servers

 

 

Additional interesting food for your brains before starting you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x deployment on AWS

 




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