BI BOP V4.1 Minimum configuration/servers/common services configuration

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Apologies if this has been asked before.  I have done some searching for the above topic but haven't run into a something or a document that outlines what exactly is required for our use in BOP V4.1.

Frankly, we as a company under utilize BI BOP.  However, there are no plans to expand its usage as far as I can tell.  We migrated from Crystal Enerprise to BO BIP v4.1 and were surprise how much more resources (server) are required from the platform.  However, it has so many bells and whistles that I wish to consolidate it to just features that we need.

Basically I am looking for documentation that will let me know what common services/servers are required to run in order to use BOP like we did in BOE.  We use the Open Document to navigate users to reports for external apps, and we use email/pdfs for scheduled reports.  All the reports are based in Crystal Reports.  Now a few users might use the BOE/BI launch pad as well but I dont think it is used by many anymore.  Most use the opendocument or the scheduled reports or just the CMC for running reports.

Of course, not knowing everything about BI BOP, I let it configure the setup and we have everything running BUT it is problematic.  Memory becomes an issue on the 8GRAM 1 CPU server.  Can anyone please point me in the right direction where I can find the documentation?

We currently are using BI BOP V4.1 SP6 p2 Enterprise edtion....

Thanks!

Ryan Bellow

NSTec

Contractor to the US Department of Energy

[former_member185603 · Accepted solution]

Looking at your configuration, it is very small configuration. BI4 requires minimum 16 GB RAM, 4 CPUs.

You can start with below link how to size your environment.

Check PAM for minimum requirements.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I will definitely review the documentation in order to figure out what is best for the configuration.  Thank you for the links.

[denis_konovalov]

Based on what you described you need to start with Admin guide , which you can find here : SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 – SAP Help Portal Page

Also, as you're only using Crystal Reports , you should review the Product workflows related to them and you use and then turn off services you do not need.
See following to help you : 

and as already mentioned 1 CPU is nearly not enough to run anything.

One other thing - users should never have access or use CMC. If users need to schedule reports, they should use BILAUNCHPAD. CMC is Admin/Manager tool, BILP is the User tool.

[Former Member]

Thank you for the tutorial link.  Seems there are more services that are required for Crystal Reports than I thought.  I will need to do some sizing in order to get our servers on par with the requirements.  I will also review how normal users get into BOE.  Hopefully there is a method to remove the CMC access from users. 

Thanks again, all are helpful answers.  Wish I could choose both because I would need to:

1) Review the necessary services/servers

2) Resize upon workload and usage.