Disk Space consuming more under session folder in Data.

[former_member366845]

Hi

Disk space is consuming more in directory: Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\Data\Note1WIPS\sessions and few session we can see PDF and few session are xml docs.

Installed version : 4.2 SP5 Patch 2

Cluster : Environment.

DB: Oracle and Disk available space: 60GB and filling more than 50GB.

Any idea? how to what is these files and how to get out of this.

[denis_konovalov]

that is session cache directory for the webi processing server.
WIPS should be cleaning those after itself, unless it is crashing.

You should investigate if it does in fact crashes or not....
As to cleaning it - you can stop WIPS, delete everything under this directory and start it again.

p.s.
Looks like your users are exporting lots of data to PDF and excel, are you sure they are using the product as intended and not using it as ETL tool to transfer data to excel for further analysis there ?

[former_member366845]

Thanks Denis,

Cache is not cleaning itself, WIPS service is not getting crash unless disk reached to 100%.

Every time we are manually stopping the SIA and cleaning the cache in Session. Is there any way to get out of it? observed few reports are exporting and seeing the same kind of behavior while scheduling to format - PDF / excel.

No ETL tool is using to transfer the data to excel - just we are exporting to PDF / Excel and schedules.

[denis_konovalov]

How do you know it is not crashing ?

There are 2 possibilities :
1. you do not have enough disk space for the amount of work your WIPS does - solution is to add more disk space or fix the bad practice of exporting data to pdf/excel.

Webi is not an export tool, webi is analysis tool. use it as such.

2. WIPS is not recycling the cache dir properly. Open an incident with SAP under BI-RA-WBI component to investigate that part.