how to launch launchpad in local machine?

[priyanka1905]

Hi,

I want to see the webi and Crystal reports in my local launchpad.

When I am entering "localhost:8080/BOE/BI" in web browser. I am getting error message

This site can’t be reached

localhost refused to connect.

• Search Google for localhost 8080 BOE

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Can someone please help me how to setup launchpad in localhost?

[priyanka1905]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.....

Problem is resolved. There is a particular column from Database which is having 6 decimal digits because of which i was throwing error. DBA has made it to 2 digits after decimal and now its working fine.

Thank you everyone for your valuable time and suggestions.

[VenkateswaraGY · Accepted solution]

Hi Priyanka,

http://localhost:8080/BOE/BI url works only on machine where the BI Platform with WebTier feature is installed or at least on the machine where the Web Applications are deployed either manually or using Wdeploy tool, on the Application Server which is running on the port 8080.

But in general, if you want to access the /BOE/BI url from anywhere, then you need to know the machine and port details where the BOE.war or all the Web applications of the BOE are deployed and access that from your machine browser in the following format

i.e. "http://<machine>:<port>/BOE/BI" (Here the <machine> can be the FQDN of the machine where the application server is running or you can enter the ip address of the same.

For more information please refer the following guides

Web Application Deployment Guide for Windows / Web Application Deployment Guide for Unix

and

Business Intelligence Platform Installation Guide for Windows / Business Intelligence Platform Installation Guide for Unix

Thanks,

Venkat

[priyanka1905 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the response Venkat.

Can you tell me how to install BI Platform with WebTier feature? BO is already installed in my machine.

[denis_konovalov · Accepted solution]

Is your machine uses server OS ?
What BO exactly is installed on your machine ?

[VenkateswaraGY · Accepted solution]

First you can cross check whether the WebTier is already installed or not? if you installation is on Windows machine,

then you need to login to that machine,

Launch the maintenance screen of the BI Platform product by clicking on the Uninstall/Change button in the Add or Remove Programs section of the Control Panel by selecting the product.

Then in the maintenance window, select "Modify" and click next

Click Next in the Language Pack selection screen

You can now see in the "Select Features" screen, whether the "WebTier" feature is already installed fully or not?

If the "WebTier" feature is already selected earlier in the installation, it will be shown as above, then in that machine where the BO is installed, you can access the url "http://localhost:8080/BOE/BI/" or from the other machine you can access the same as "http://<machine>:8080/BOE/BI/.

[priyanka1905 · Accepted solution]

sap1.png

I am not getting the option of "WebTier" on select features tab.

[former_member456023 · Accepted solution]

As mentioned above, launch maintenance screen of the BI platform product but from the screenshot sap1.png shows that you launched BI platform client, that is why "WebTier" feature is not shown.

From control panel, select the program name similar to one in the screenshot below.

Note - The product version varies.

[Joe_Peters · Accepted solution]

For what reason do you need to install the web tier on a client machine?

[amitrathi239 · Accepted solution]

Web Tier option in setup you will get on BO server exe file.Attached screenshot is from BO client tools.

What is the system name are you entering while logging on crystal report/ webi rich client?Same server name replace with local host in below url and try.

"localhost:8080/BOE/BI"

[priyanka1905 · Accepted solution]

Hey Amit,

I tried this "localhost:8080/BOE/BI" but its not working.

In my machine I am entering "system/serverName:8080/BOE/BI". It is working fine. But I want to open a report in my machine in local host which I am unable to do.

[priyanka1905 · Accepted solution]

We don't have any test environment. I have created some reports in production with odbc connection to sybase database. one of these report is giving me error messege:

"The viewer could not process an event. Error in File:

Database Connector Error: 'HY000:[Sybase][ODBC Driver]Data overflow. Increase specified column size or buffer size [Database Vendor Code: 30128 ]' []
---- Error code:0 [CRWEB00000119]

I want to create the same scenario in my local machine so that I can find out the fix for this.

Also if anyone aware how to fix this issue, please help me.

[priyanka1905 · Accepted solution]

I have this version: Platform 4. Please refer attached screenshot.

sap5.png

[denis_konovalov · Accepted solution]

the error is very specific as to what is the root cause of it.

[denis_konovalov]

I think I got it.
You have BOE client tools installed on your machine and you're trying to login into BIlaunchpad, but you are using localhost in the URL.

So to fix this you need to ask your BOE admin what is the host name of the BOE SERVER and use that host name in the URL for the BILaunchpad.
Or ask Admin to give you the correct URL which will work from client machine.

[priyanka1905]

Denis this is what exactly I am trying to do.

But I don't have any admin person here. Network person has installed the client tool setup in my machine. Now I'll have to take care of everyting. Since I am not aware of admin activities I am facing this issue.

It will be great if you can help me on it.

Thanks in Advance.

[denis_konovalov]

I do not think I can help you.
In order to use Bilaunchpad or CMC you need to have SAP Business Intelligence platform installed somewhere on a server.
Once you have that - you will have URL to access. Until then your client tools are practically useless.
If you have the BOE server, but do not have BOE admin and your network person doesn't know about it either - there is nothing that can be done.

[Joe_Peters]

Ok, few things here based on various comments in other answers:

You're getting a Sybase error when refreshing a CR in BI launchpad (I assume), and you want to test the report locally on your computer.

Installing the web tier locally won't do anything for you. All of the actual report processing occurs within the BOE server application. Even if you did install the web tier, the report processing would still happen the same way as it does now (you'd essentially just be moving the web processing piece from the server to your workstation).

If the report was created with CR, then you should use CR on your computer to work with it -- there's no need (or advantage) to install the server software locally. Likewise for WebI -- you can use WebI Rich Client on your computer to retrieve a report from the server and work with it locally.

With all that said, the error indicates a database problem. Have you spoken with the DBA?

[priyanka1905]

The report is working fine in CR tool. The problem is only when I am opening it in Launchpad.

Checked with DBA. He is unable to help.

[Joe_Peters]

I think you should focus on the database error message; it's not originating from BO. As a wild guess, it could be due to different versions of the ODBC driver on the BO server vs. your computer.

[denis_konovalov]

Your DBA needs to address this error at ODBC driver or DB levels.
This is where the error comes from.