[UPDATED 10/1/2010 – See Below] I was recently involved with the configuration of Kerberos with a customer and as I was reading about it in the documentation, I realized that there were a number of areas that lacked the clarity I needed to understand what information SAP BusinessObjects needed to know about my environment. The […]
Category Archives: Administrators
Quick but useful change to Tomcat
Although I usually like to focus on tips and tricks for BusinessObjects software, I occassionally run across something that I which I had known a long time ago. As a BusinessObjects administrator how often have you mistyped the URL that takes you to InfoView? Wouldn’t it be nice if you just typed in the server […]
Universe Measures – Divide and Conquer
I was recently working with a universe and attempting to calculate a ratio between two numbers and coming up with some strange results. I wanted to share this with you so you didn’t waste as much time as I did trying to solve the problem. Always Returning Zero In my example, I had two measures […]
BusinessObjects XI 3.1 Features
I haven’t seen a lot of information available that talks about what’s new in the release of the latest version, BusinessObjects XI 3.1, so I thought I would point out some of the highlights I’ve come across. You may also want read the complete What’s New in BusinessObjects XI 3.1 guide from the website. Release […]
Manually Starting Services
Even though the SIA has been setup to automatically start services, another alternative is to control the starting of these services through scripts. One colleague of mine setup his BusinessObjects Enterprise SIA so that only the CMS and the FRS Input and Output services started up automatically. All other services were setup to start manually. […]