Business Objects on Unix

[Former Member]

Hello,

We are running BO XI3.2 on Windows at the moment. I would like to get some feedback on some of your experiences, issues in running a BOE instance on Unix. Are there any stability issues on Unix. Every application (SAP and non-SAP) we have runs on Unix, except BO.

All feedbacks appreciated.

Arun

[BasicTek · Accepted solution]

If you intend to integrate your user accounts with Active Directory or enable AD SSO then it's best to keep the CMS on windows, although alternative methods of using AD with the LDAP plugin are available on nix they are all lacking in various aspects/functionality. This is the only negative consideration I would mention on the unix side. If you don't plan on AD or AD SSO and your support staff is more nix orientated then you should be fine.

Regards,

Tim

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

All I can say is BO is more stable on Unix then windows.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

BO works fine in unix but doing custom monitoring seems to be limited with Unix version given the limited tools (i.e. determining stopped job servers cannot be displayed in ccm.sh, etc.). And if you are not used to Unix environment, it is harder to troubleshoot when you encounter an issue.

[Former Member]

Crystal Server 2008 works pretty well with Linux environment except that there are little odbc issues.