Week 2 Unit 2: Configuration

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BI 4.x Server Configuration TipsWeb Applications Properties

Bilaunchpad.properties

Controls settingsspecific to the BI launchpad application

Ensure customchanges are made tothe followingparameters:

authentication.visible authentication.default cms.default

dsws.properties

Controls settings specificto the Web Servicesapplication

Ensure custom changesare made to the followingparameters:

domain qaaws.principal.username qaaws.principal.password

CrystalReports.properties

Controls settings specificto the Crystal Reportsapplication

Ensure custom changesare made to thefollowing parameter:

cms.default

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BI 4.x Server Configuration TipsUpdate CMC Application Parameters

Update Web ServicesAccess URL

This value is used forDashboards using the directquery connection

It can be picked upautomatically for WebService based dashboards ifyou dont specify a URL

Set the Open DocumentProcessing Settings

Certain applications, likeDesign Studio, require this tobe set for viewingapplications on the BIPlatform

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BI 4.x Server Configuration TipsCluster Settings

Update the cluster nameusing CCM orserverconfig.sh

The value defaults to the firstCMS in the cluster

Change this to provide afriendly name for yourenvironment such asBI41Production

To make web applicationscluster aware update thePlatformServices.propertiesfile

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BI 4.x Server Configuration TipsUpdate Java Settings

Update Java Options for Tomcat /sap_bobj/tomcat/bin/setenv.sh Start > Programs > Tomcat > Configure Tomcat >

Java JAVA_OPTS="-Xms128m Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

Set Tomcat Garbage Collector Java 6: JAVA_OPTS=-XX:+UseParallelOldGC Java 7: JAVA_OPTS=-XX:+UseGC1

Update the JDK used by Tomcat to takeadvantage of security and performanceimprovements

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BI 4.x Server Configuration TipsFirewall Settings

Reserve a port range to be used for BI tocommunicate through the firewall

For example, reserve ports 6400-6700 for BI useand remember port 8080/8443 for Tomcat

Port ranges make firewall monitoring easy Enable easy repetition in BI environment expansion

Bind each BI service to a specific port Ports can be configured from the CMC server

properties Leverage requestJSChildPorts switch on Job

Server command line for Job Server Childprocesses

Align Job Server Child ports with Job Server tominimize complexity

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BI 4.x Server Configuration TipsOther

Exclude the Tomcat webapplication directory from antivirussoftware:

Scanning the directory increases Tomcatstartup time

Web Application Deployment time isincreased exponentially if scanned byantivirus software

In BI 4.1, use the SystemConfiguration Wizard to shut downunwanted products

Turn off monitoring in the CMCunless needed

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Single Server Deployment

Best suited for smallorganizations

Downtime can causelong periods ofunavailability

Proper backups arecritical to recoveringsingle serverdeployments

Processes can bevertically scaled toincrease capacity

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Horizontal Scaling

Also known as Scale Out Scale out web applications by adding a

web server and splitting out staticcontent

Distribute BI Platform servers onspecialized nodes for Management Tierand Processing Tier

Primary use case for redundancyand fault tolerance

Distribute multiple instances ofprocessing servers, such as WebIntelligence, to ensure availability in caseof server failure

Web ServerServes static content orredirect only

Web Client BI PlatformServers

Web Application ServerServes static and/or dynamiccontent

Web Connector(e.g. AJP 13)

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Horizontal and Vertical Scaling

Web Client

Web Server FarmStatic content or redirector only

Application Server Cluster(Session Replication)

BI Platform Servers

Web Connector(e.g. AJP 13)

Hardware Load Balancer

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Performance Challenges

Often have slower linksresulting in increased waittimes

Non-optimized cachesettings cause additionalserver roundtrips todownload content

Often have slower linksresulting in increased waittimes

Non-optimized cachesettings cause additionalserver roundtrips todownload content

Lack of Cache-controlPublic header preventspervasive caching onproxies

Standard proxy serverscannot cache contentdelivered over SSL

Lack of Cache-controlPublic header preventspervasive caching onproxies

Standard proxy serverscannot cache contentdelivered over SSL

Increased GC fromApplication Serverhandling static content

More GC cycles reducethroughput and can causeapplication pause times

Increased GC fromApplication Serverhandling static content

More GC cycles reducethroughput and can causeapplication pause times

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Apache Web Server and WDeploy

Apache is the most popular web server in the world today running an estimated63% of all Web sites.

Available branded as IBM HTTP server for use with WebSphere where it providesequivalent functionality

Provides modules that extend core functionality and enable optimization of staticresources

The WDeploy tool is included with SAP BI Platform to ease deployment of webapplications to Java-based web application servers.

Supports auto-configuration of HTTP server connectors such as MOD_JK or IBM HTTPserver plugin

Separates static content and automatically deploys it to your supported web server ofchoice

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Apache Modules Explained

Allows forwarding of dynamic requests to ApplicationServer for processing

Enables load balancing and reverse proxy featuresfor added performance, reliability, and scalability

MOD_JK

Apply cache-control headers such as Public andMax-Age

Remove extraneous e-tag or last-modified headersMOD_HEADERS

Deliver in-memory or file system-based caching Automated maintenance of file system cache with

Htcacheclean processMOD_CACHE

Simple HTTP compression for more effective staticcontent deliveryMOD_DEFLATE

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Web Application Deployment with WDeploy

wdeploy.bat tomcat6 deployall wdeploy.bat tomcat6 Das_mode=split Dws_type=apache predeployallDwork_dir=C:/temp

wdeploy.bat tomcat6 Das_mode=split Dws_type=apachedeployall

C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAPBusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps

C:\temp\tomcat6\resources

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Changes to WDeploy Split mode

WDeploy static content in XI3.1 WDeploy static content in BI 4.x

~5.5x increase to the amount of static content separated in BI 4.x

Thank you

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