WDeploy ???

[Former Member]

Hi

May I know what is Wdeploy?

What does it do?

Where can I find BOE.war?

How to Wdeploy the war?

I read the Web Application Deployment Guide -SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 Support Package 4.

But I am confused...

Please help me...

Thanks

Sandeep

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Please find the below answers.

May I know what is Wdeploy? What does it do?

wdeploy tool delivered with BI4.0, this tool is used to deploy the BI4 web applications to various web application servers.

And a command-line tool for JSP environments

Where can I find BOE.war?

Windows: <BusinessObjects Install Dir>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\WARFILES

How to Wdeploy the war?

1) With Wdeply tool:

For deploying all the Web apps directly use the Wdeply tool

Install SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0 with the automatic deployment option to the

default Tomcat 6.0

Run Wdeploy GUI tool ( Start > Programs > SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0 > SAP

BusinessObjects Enterprise > Wdeploy)

For "Choose Deployment Action", select "Undeploy all SAP BusinessObjects Web

Applications from the server"

Select "Tomcat 6.0" as Web 4. Application Server

Specify the property value of Server Instance and Service Name(By default:"localhost",

"BOEXI40Tomcat")

Specify the property value of Application Server Domain Roor Directory (Be default:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Tomcat6")

Click Run

2) With CMD line:

Please check the below SAP Note to have complete details about deploying particular warfile using Wdeploy.

1608960 - How to deploy war files in BusinessObjects BI 4.x using the wdeploy

command line utility

Regards,

Prasad

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi JRK

Thanks for your reply.

May I know what exactly happens when we run it?

Does it overwrite/delete any files or folders?

Any back up needed before running it?

Thanks

Sandeep

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Please find the below answers:

May I know what exactly happens when we run it? Does it overwrite/delete any files or folders?

This Wdeply utility will deploy/undeploy all the webapps in the particular web server.

Sometimes it’s necessary to redeploy your war files in Tomcat due to corruption, changes, and installation problems can be a reason for you to redeploy the war files and clear the cache in Tomcat.

This Undeploy will clear all the Webapps .

As a best practice, first we need undeploy and redploy it.

Any back up needed before running it?

  Before you redeploy your web applications, you should first take note of any previous changes you’ve made to web.xml’s or other files then backup the following directory:

/path/to/tomcat/webapps/*

Copy all of these files and folders to a different location.

[denis_konovalov · Accepted solution]

sandeep s wrote:
May I know what exactly happens when we run it?

You can see it in the wdeploy logs which are generated automaticaly.

Does it overwrite/delete any files or folders?

Yes it does. It takes source files and builds from them custom web apps for your specific web app server. Replacing originals with new version.

Any back up needed before running it?

If you did not make custom modifications to BOE apps - no need to backup. (well maybe to be 100% sure)
If you did make custom mods, depending on how, where - you do need to make backup so you can re-apply them.

Again, I'll point you to the web application deployment guide which describes exact wdeploy functionality.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

PRASAD JRK wrote:

Please find the below answers.



1) With Wdeply tool:

For deploying all the Web apps directly use the Wdeply tool

Install SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0 with the automatic deployment option to the
default Tomcat 6.0

Run Wdeploy GUI tool ( Start > Programs > SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0 > SAP
BusinessObjects Enterprise > Wdeploy)

I have a fresh install of BI 4.1 SP5 from the 51046778 package.  I'm trying to apply SP5.   I have ZERO traces of this start menu item.  I also cannot find any traces to wdeploy.exe or wdeploy.jar

Is this something that should have been installed automatically WITH BI 4.1 SP1?

[Former Member]

Hi,

We can find the war files in the below given location of the Root installation Directory.

C:\BO_ROOT_DIR\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy\workdir\tomcat6\application

Hope this helps!

[Former Member]

Hi Kavya,

  I answered  both suggestions.

I check both properties, they are empty but I remember that before I make the "undeploy" action they are still empty. I haven't change anything.

  When I go to this directory:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy\workdir\tomcat7\application" (I have the version 7 of Tomcat), the directory is empty.

There is only data in this directory: "\resources"

Can you help me???

Thanks a lot.

[Former Member]

Its strange that you find the location to be empty. In this scenario I would suggest you to repair your installation. Perform the repair only for web application [tomcat] and not processing servers. This should help in populating all the warfiles in original location and then you can check whether CMC is available or not.

Good Luck!!

[Former Member]

I have finally repaired it. What I did is...

  As I said I run the "undeploy" option in the "wdeploy application" so the web application was cleaned. I executed the "predeploy" command in order to set the default configuration.

"wdeploy.bat weblogic11 -DAPP=BOE predeploy"

And after that the application starts working.

I don't know why the location is empty but it stills be empty after "predeploy".

Thanks a lot.

[Former Member]

Hello,

  I have done this step:

"For "Choose Deployment Action", select "Undeploy all SAP BusinessObjects Web Applications from the server" to: Wdeploy the war

Then, like other times, I choose "Deploy all avilable SAP BusinessObjects Web Applications..."

And now when I can't run my application. I have the floders: "BOE" and "AdminTools" empty, what I did wrong????

Thanks a lot.

David

[Former Member]

Hello David,

Before clicking on the "Deploy all available SAP Business Objects Web Applications...", Did you check the "Options" and fill the proper "Work_Dir & App_Source_Tree"?

[Former Member]

The WDeploy tool is included with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise to ease deployment of web

applications to Java-based web application servers.

There are two different versions of WDeploy:

• A traditional, text-based interface that processes commands and parameters given on the

command-line.

• A new console-based guided assistant similar to the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise installation

program, which prompts the user to enter deployment parameters.

While each supported web application server requires different commands and web application package

updates, WDeploy provides a consistent interface for administrators, and automates the adjustments

needed for deployment to a specific web application server.

For example, to deploy a web application to an SAP NetWeaver AS Java web application server, a

single WDeploy command performs the following tasks:

1. Creates settings specific to SAP NetWeaver in the web application's web.xml file.

2. Bundles the web application content into a web archive.

3. Creates an SCA package containing the web application.

4. Copies the SCA package to the SAP NetWeaver deployment directory.

5. Calls SAP NetWeaver deployment tools to deploy the web application.

[Former Member]

Guys , I need to redeploy BOE.war file. Where exactly could i find the latest file ?

I see multiple tomcat folders  now after upgrading from BI 4.0 SP6 to 4.1 SP01 and then 4.1 SP02 and then 4.1SP02 Patch 1

Sivakanth,

[Former Member]

Tomcat 6 was used in previous releases. 4.1 upgrade will install Tomcat7. Please use the Tomcat7 folder for war file.

"<BOE_INSTALL_DIR>/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/wdeploy/workdir/tomcat7/

application/YOUR_WEB_APPLICATION.war"

[Former Member]

Hi,

can you please share, how did you use wdeploy.

I'm on the same release bo 4.1 sp2 and finding quite tough to use wdeploy

Thanks

Dharmendra

[Former Member]

Deploying web applications (WAR files):

1. Open the file config.tomcat7 in Notepad. It can be located in C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy\conffolder.
2. Assign the following values to the respective variables: ( Change the values according to your instaltion directory and service name)
   as_dir= C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\tomcat
   as_instance=localhost
   as_service_name=BOEXI40Tomcat
   Save & close the file.
3. Open a Command Prompt in elevated mode if you are using MS Windows Server 2008. Navigate to the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy.
4. Run the command wdeploy tomcat7 validateconfig to check if you have made the correct changes  in config.tomcat7 file.
5. A BUILD SUCCESSFUL message will appear if the validation is successful.
6. Now run the command wdeploy tomcat7 deployall to deploy the WAR files of SAP BO BI 4.0 on Tomcat 7.
7. A BUILD SUCCESSFUL message will appear once all the WAR files are successfully deployed.

[Former Member]

Hello Mr. Prasad,

It was really helpfull and with your help i deployed BOE file.

Thank you.

Regards,

Dharmendra Kumar.

[Former Member]

Hi Prasad,

Your article is really helpful. One of our requirement is to deploy all the web application .WAR files on another machine which has Apache tomcat installed on it.

Kindly provide the details(or Doc's/SCN pages) of how to deploy the .WAR on another server.

I went through web application deployment but i was not able to find the exact info regarding this deployment. It will really helpful if you can provide the information like what version of Apache we can download and what are the config files we need modify before the deployment and the procedure of how to deploy.

--Harsha.

[Former Member]

Thanks Prasad

That resolved my problem

[CdnConnection]

Sandeep,

     Follow link to latest version of the Web deployment guide for more details.

http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700000442392013E/xi4sp6_webappdeploy_win_en.pdf

Regards,

Ajay

[denis_konovalov]

Web applications deployment guide has exact and complete information about wdeploy, what it does and how to use it.

Which part you find confusing ?

This information might help SAP improve their docs.

[Former Member]

Hi Denis

Please go thru the reply I posted to JRK.

Thanks

Sandeep