SAP BODS Notes-Part2

Installation of BODS 4.0

Prerequisites:

Ø  Database (MY SQL)

Ø  Web Application Server(WAS) Ex: Tomcat,Jboss

Supported Platform:

Hardware

·         64 bit

·         RAM Minimum(8GB-16GB)

·         Hard Disk(40 GB)

Operating System(OS)

·         64 bit server(OS)

·         64/32 bit client os

PAM(Product Availability Matrix), SMP(Service Market Place)  for BODS 4.0 in windows/unix

BODS Tools

CMC/IPS Tools	BODS Server Tools	BODS Client Tools
CCM->CMS	Repository Manager	BODS Designer
CMC	Server Manager	Local Selector
LCM	BODS Management Console	Documentation
UMT	Meta Data Integrator
WDT	License Manager

CMC/IPS Tools:

1.       Central Configuration Manager(CCM):

·         Type: Desktop Tool/Server Tool/Administrator Tool

·         Function: BO Server Management (which we can manage platform services & servers)

·         Add additional BO server (SIA)

·         SIA -Clustering/Backup CMS DB/Restoring of CMS DB

·         Management of BO Services/server

       w.r.to BODS

CCM has CMS and EIM

Ø  CMS (Central Management Server) will create interface b/w BO application & repository.

Ø  EIM Adaptive Processing Server use when we connect in between RFC and BODS. If EIM Services is nt working /down then we can’t create RFC communication for SAP extraction.

Note: Input/ Output file repository services: we can’t save to repository and we can’t access doc's from repository

2.       CMC (Central Management Console)

·         Type: webapp/administration tool/server tool

·         URL:http://<IPS/CMC Server>:<WAS Port>/BOE/CMC

·         Ex: http://localhost:8080/BOE/CMC

·         Function : BODS Repository Management, User management, security management(content/user), license management

3.       LCM(Life Cycle Mnagement Console)

·         Type: web/server/administrator

·         Function: Deployeement of BOE Content (CMS content)/ version managemnt tool

·         URL: http://<IPS/cmcserver>:<WAS port>/BOE/LCM

·         SP05 onwards LCM integrated with cMC as Promotion management, sub version management

·         CMS DB content only we can move using LCM

4.       UMT(Upgrade Management Tool)

·         Two types- Full upgrade/ increment upgrade

·         Type:Desktop/administration tool/server tool

·         Function:upgrading/migrating BOE content & application from lower 4.0 version to higher 4.1 version

Ø  Import wizard

·         IW(Import wizard 3.x)=LCM(4.0)+UMT(4.1)

·         Source and destination system will be same version

·         Import wizard doesn’t support Rollback

·         No version management

·         No scheduling deployment

·         No log maintenance

5.       Web Deployment Tool

·         Type: Desktop/server/administrator tool

·         Function: web application deployment tool. .WAR files deploy into Web Application Server(WAS) ie. Tomcats, IIS, Web logic..etc. The .war files are located in BOE installation directory/BOE/War files folder.

·         BODS4.0upgrademgr.exe in bin folder, we will get this along with BODS 4.0 installation

BODS Server Tools:

1.       Repository Manager

·         It is a tool to create repositories

·         DB->Repository Manager->Repository

·         Types: 3 types of repositories at DB level

·         Local: Store the metadata of designer

·         Central: to enable version management & multi user working environment

·         Profile: to perform data assessment.. measuring & analyzing the data

·         4th type of repository at OS level not DB level

·         Directories is also one kind of repositories which stores cleansing packages (<LINK_DIR>/Admin/Repo)

·         all script files are version dependent on version (4.1, 4.0)

·         all script files which will create metadata tables in repositories

·         5 types of script files which will allows to create repository in DB(Oracle, MS SQL, HANA, DB2..etc)

·         If BODS version was upgraded, then only we will upgrade the repository 3.x->4.0

·         Repository Manager will also helps you to check the version of a repository

·         It is a administrator /Desktop / Server tool

·         Repository manager is a tool to create repositories, upgrade repositories, check the version of a repositories

·         Cleansing packages (under reference directory folder)

2.       Server Manager:

·         It is a server tool/ administrator tool/ desktop tool

·         It is a tool to create job server, access server

·         It is a tool where we can define pegable memory path settings(RJ10, RJ20..)

·         It is a tool where we can do email configurations

·         It is a tool where we can do realtime job configuration at receiver side

·         Run/ Restart services either manually (services.msc) or automatic method(at server manager)

·         Assignment of repository to job server

·         If you do any activity you need to restart a service in BODS called server manager

·         Repositories are project specific..

·         Job server, access server services are landscape specific(Dev, QLT, Prod)

3.       Management Console

·         Type: web application/administration application/web server

·         URL:http://local host:28080/Data Services

4.       Metadata Integrator: (MDI)

·         It is a tool which will integrate BODS & BOBI

·         It is Desktop/Server/Administrator tool

·         We can schedule the MDI to get the data from CMS DB to BODS Repo with regular intervals

·         here in BODS we will get all metadata of (universes, reports..)do the impact & leanage analysis

·         It is a tool to integrate BODS & BOE to enable impact & leanage analysis till reports

·         BODS 4.0 onwards, system should already contain(installed) BOE Client tools. then only we can able to install metadata integrator(BODS Client tools)

·         Ex: If we delete these 2 tables in source we estimate how many reports are affected in BOE

5.       License Manager:

·         we can add, delete, modify license

·         It is desktop/administrator/ server tool

·         we have to login to server to access this ool

BODS Client Tool

1.       Designer

·         It is desktop/client tool

·         we hav eto install bods client tools

2.       Locale selector:

·         Language selector

·         It is developer/client/Desktop tool

·         It will help you to select a default language of a designer tool

3.       Documentation:

·         Technical manual of the tool