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Web Intelligence/Desktop IntelligenceSpecial Interest Group
Life Cycle Management
for XI 3.1
Jay Riddle - Senior Consultant
Consultancy by Kingfisher, Inc.
07/21/2009
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Topics
• Introduction
• Architecture Review
• Installing Life Cycle Manager v1
• Live Demonstration
• LCM Security & Administration
• Creating & Promoting a LCMBIAR file
• Creating & Promoting from CMS to CMS
• Version Management
• FAQ
INTRODUCTION
What is LifeCycle Manager for XI 3.1?
• BusinessObjects LifeCycle Manager (LCM) is a web-based tool (Java
based) that enables you to move BI resources from one system to
another system, without affecting the dependencies of these resources.
It also enables you to manage different versions of BI resources,
manage dependencies of BI resources, and roll back a promoted
resource to restore the destination system to its previous state.
• The LCM tool is a plug-in for the BusinessObjects Enterprise
application. You can promote a BI resource from one system to another
system only if the same version of the BusinessObjects.
Promotion vs. Migration vs. Replication
LCMImport Wizard
Federation
Download – SAP Support Portal
http://service.sap.com/bosap-downloads
LCM ARCHITECTURE
Best Practice Architecture
Reminder: No additional licensing
required when installing LCM –
including when creating a separate
BOE XI 3.1 system purely for LCM.
In Future: Will be a tab in CMC
Diagram care of David Brockington, Product
Manager, SAP BusinessObjects - (2009)
INSTALLATION
Pre-requisites
• Windows Server 2003/2008**
• Disk Space: 225mb
• RAM: 2GB
• Processor: 32 or 64-bit (x86) AMD or Intel
• BOE XI 3.1 System w/ enabled servers:
• Central Management Server
• Input/Output File Repository Servers
• Adaptive Processing Server
• Web Application Server (Tomcat)
** Reference the LCM User Guide
for more specific information on
supported platforms.
Package Contents
Installation Wizard…
This is a GUI
installation…
…but a CLI
installation is
also available*
CLI = Command Line Interface
* See Installation Guide for details…
…
Accept the license
agreement to get
the party started…
… Subversion
Already have
Subversion?
Create a new
repository…
HINT: Set up the
repository using
port: 3690Subversion is an open source
version control system
More Info @ http://subversion.tigris.org/
… Subversion Config
This section will only
appear if you chose
to “Use an existing
Subversion
Installation” on the
previous screen…
… SVN Repository Password
If installing Sub-
version using wizard
Set your
password to secure
your SVN
repository… SVN
… CMS Credentials
Enter the BOE
server & credentials
for the system you
are deploying LCM
on…
For the purposed of this seminar,
against best practice, LCM was
deployed onto our Development box…
… Repository Password
Want to deploy
the web tier piece
separately?
Use Wdeploy to
un-package the
war files on your
web app server. *
* See Installation Guide for CLI commands…
…
Begin the installation when ready…
…
Fin.
BOE LCM Subversion Service
Subversion Repository Location
Subversion Check-In Path
Stored by CUID (similar to
CMS repository)
CUID = Cluster Unique Identifier
Example of deployed LCM web app
Hot Tip – Avoid Auditing Errors
• To use the Audit feature in LCM, you must…
Have a functioning Audit DB enabled in SIA settings
Enable „Audit Events‟ on Adaptive Processing Server
Enable „Audit Events‟ on LCM Job Server
… Audit DB in SIA Properties (CCM)
… Adaptive Processing Server (CMC)
… LCM Job Server (CMC)
Known Issues & FAQ
FAQ
• Is LCM supported in Edge?• Yes. Although not packaged with Edge, you can download it and
implement in conjunction with an existing Edge installation.
However, the download is in the Enterprise area which you may not
have access to. Contact SAP Support for help getting access to
the download.
• Are Linked Universes supported?• Unless they were broken during a previous migration or other issue,
then yes – LCM identifies and supports promotion of linked
universes.
• Will LCM work with IIS?• No. LCM is Java based and requires a web app server that hosts
as a java servlet container such as Tomcat, or Weblogic.
FAQ Continued…
• Do our environments need to be at the same SP
level?• Yes. Separate environments should be at same SP level. Some
flexibility exists in patch level (FP, HF, etc), but problems can occur
with universe/connection mappings, as well as other things if not
closely mirrored.
• Can you cluster the LCM Job Server?• Installing more than one LCM Job server per CMS is not supported.
Hence, the LCM Job server cannot be clustered. There is also no
need for this.
• Are DI object supported?• Currently DI objects do not reside in the CMS repository, so not
currently. However, it is said that DI objects may moved into the
CMS repository in a future release of BOE.
FAQ Continued…
• Does LCM support the promotion of Overloads (aka
„Overrides‟)?• Yes. If you recall this is a checkbox in the Import Wizard. You can
find more information on Overloads in the Release Notes provided
with the other documentation in the LCM installation package.
• Does LCM support the promotion of Application rights
(Example: InvoView, CMC, Widgets, etc)• No. Continue to use the Import Wizard to migrate application rights
if needed, or once initial promotion of group security to the
destination system is accomplished (ie. to Production
system), manually setup these rights.
Known Issues:
• LCM v1 has a bug in displaying non-english folder names. If all your
folders are "english" then it should display in the LCM UI. The LCM
SP2 patch should be able to fix this issue.
• LCM cannot promote Application Rights or Document Instances. Use
the Import Wizard for this
• If a user is logged into the destination system‟s Infoview or CMC (ie.
Prod) - when objects are being promoted they may receive errors.
Have them log out and log back in once promotion is complete or set
promotions to occur in off hours to avoid this.
• When looking at the History of a job, the “Rollback” button is grayed
out. You have to click “Refresh”, then select the job you wish to roll
back, and the button will finally become selectable.
Q&A
• Jay Riddle
• Senior Consultant
• Consultancy by Kingfisher, Inc.
• jay.riddle@kingfisherinc.com
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