SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Great to see that Life Cycle Manager is now bundled with the SAP BI 4 platform.

I have been trying to configure the tool via the Administration Options based on the settings I know have worked in several Life Cycle Manager installations I have done on XI 3.1.

Has anything changed with the XI 4 configuration because no matter what I try I keep receiving the following error when I try to launch the Version Management System?

com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "E:\BOXI4\SAP": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified 

I have looked at the Life Cycle Manager 4 manual and nothing seems to have changed configuration wise there either?

Can anyone explain why this may not be working?  Any pointers?

Thanks - Gary

[former_member136842]

Hi,

for me the Path "E:\BOXI4\SAP" doesnt look correctly. It only points to a Direcotry instead of an executable.

Check the path in a working XI 3.1 Environment to which exec it points. Search this exec in BI4 and point to Path to it.

Regards

-Seb.

[denis_konovalov]

sounds like SVN wasn't configured/installed properly....  there should be some SAP KB's/Notes on this.

[Former Member]

Hi Denis,

Can you give me the SAP KB/Note number please ?

Thanks - Gary

[denis_konovalov]

You can try this :

1645887 - How-to configure LifeCycle Manager (LCM) with
subversion (svn) using http

1632394 - Version management error when logging
in(com.businessobjects.vms.vmsException:svn:Network)

1543777 - Error while logging into Version Management of Life
Cycle Management

1415280 - How to install Subversion
1377057 -
How to configure the Subversion repository

[Former Member]

Hi Denis,

This wasn't my exact problem but your notes/guidance above helped guide me along the right lines in solving the problem.

My subversion directory needed to be pointed to the E: drive where the SAP BI 4 installation was and the directory of course needed to be specified with forward slashes rather than back slashes in the Version Management settings/configuration setting.

e.g. for example - E:/BOXI4/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/subversion.

All working now.  So many thanks.

Thanks,

Gary

[zhang_jiwen]

Hi Gary,

     Congratulations to you that you have solved the problem.

     However,in our BO BI4.0 FP3 system,the VMS can lanch without error using back slashes,like below:

     When I click the "Test VMS",an error occured like below:

I'd like to know the reason too,any idea?.

Best regards,

Sciano

[Former Member]

Hi Sciano,

After re-testing/re-checking I conclude that you are indeed correct.

So the real problem after further investigation was because Subversion didn't install properly and/or because (possibly) it was not installed to the Business Objects default installation path e.g. (C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP Business Objects .......) the Version Management settings were not implemented correctly as I noticed on our test server we do not have the same problem and the Version Management settings have picked up the installation path correctly.

As soon as I have put in the path I have mentioned above Life Cycle Manager has started working. 

I am using BOXI 4 SP2 Patch 12.

Thanks,
Gary

[Former Member]

Hi, everybody,

if you are looking for, where are the Administration Options/ VMS Settings of the LCM in the Feature Pack 3 (FP3)? You can find them in the Applications/ Version Management.