Purpose:
The purpose of this document is to up-grade SAP Business Objects Application from 4.1 SP6 to SAP Business Objects Application from 4.2
Overview:
Environment Details:
Operating system: Windows Server 2008 64 Bit
Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2
Web Application: Tomcat 7 & Tomcat 8
SAP Business Objects Tools: SAP Business Objects BI Platform for Enterprise 4.2
Installation & Configuration steps to upgrade BI4.1 SP06 to BI4.2
Pre Installation Check List:
- Backup of file-store, tomcat configuration files & Data base:
- Backup of CMS & Audit metadata
- Backup of Following Configuration Files available at Tomcat (Web Tier) & BOBJ Layer (Management Tier & Processing Tier):
- web.xml
- server.xml
- BILaunchpad.properties
- Global.properties (If you have done any changes)
· Make a note of recurring instance available in current environment
- Pause all instance before doing any upgrade activity
Post Installation Check List:
- Installation of SAP Business Objects 4.2
- Validate your configuration with respect to below points:
- Validate your reports available in your environment
- SSO (SAP, Windows AD, LDAP, & Others like Oracle SIEBEL)
- Start all paused instances and check the status after schedule.
SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.x SPxx PAM Documents:
1338845 - How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845
1868888 - Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888
SCN Thread related to Pre-requisite:-
Link:
Software Path in SAP Market Place:- Please refer above KBA for software detail
Installation & Upgrade:-
Support Patches:-
Up gradation & Configuration Documents:
When the prerequisite system check completes successfully, click Next
On the "SAP BusinessObjects BI platform services 4.2 setup" page, click Next.
Accept the License Agreement, and click Next.
Type a password for the CMS Administrator account, and click Next
To start the installation, click Next.
Installation is in progress
Updating Repository - Installation is in progress
Post Installation Steps
Finish
New Features in SAP Business Objects 4.2 Administration Perspective:-
- BI Administration Cockpit
Relevant Systems
These enhancements were successfully implemented in the following systems:
- SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.2
This document is relevant for:
- SAP Business Objects Administrator
Reference Material:
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.2
SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L2
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-68333
Installation, Upgrade, Deployment:
http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/012002523100015754782015E/sbo42_master_en.pdf
SAP BusinessObjects What's New Collection:
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-60001
Updating SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 or SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 into SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 requires a new License Key
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-70095
How to Upgrade to BI4.0
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/How+to+Upgrade+to+BI4.0
All you need to know before upgrading to BI4.0
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/All+you+need+to+know+before+upgrading+to+BI4.0
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade – Overview
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56525
Official Product Tutorials – SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8292
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 Product Availability Matrix:
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam?hash=pvnr%3D67837800100900006540
Overview - Updating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x System to BI 4.2 Release
Caching BI 4.2 SP1 Web-Tier for Platform on both Tomcat Machines
KBA:-
1338845 - How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845
1868888 - Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888
1739722 Upgrade Management Tool - Prerequisites
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1739722
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1331062
1654423 Migrations fails or take too long when using SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade Management Tool
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1654423
1804414 How to increase Upgrade Management Tool timeout?
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1804414
1863600 - How does session management work with SAP BI Platform 4.0 web application clients?
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1863600
1837122 - How to increase session timeout value for BI Launchpad and CMC in BI 4.0
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1837122
1950573 – Is it Necessary to Split the Adaptive Job Server in BI 4.x?
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1950573
Note 1768713:Crystal report when exported to PDF displays in wrong font in BOE XI 3.1
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1768713
2144559 Maintenance/Forward Fit Strategy and Schedule for BOE XI3.1 and BI4.x
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2144559
1724610 How to check the version of SAP BI 4.x installed on UNIX environment
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1724610
1613846 How to find which fixes are installed on BI 4.x in a Windows environment
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1613846
1739722 - Upgrade Management Tool - Prerequisites
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1739722
1904814 - Best practices for a successful migration to BI4 using the upgrade management tool
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1904814
2047063 - Promotion management services show "The service did not start" on adaptive processing server (APS ) "running with errors"
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2047063
1602088 - Which version number corresponds to which patch / SP for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x ?
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1602088
2109790 - Error: ‘The action cannot be performed’ when scheduling Webi documents created against unx universes and data tracking is enabled
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2109790
2297866 - Tomcat8 is no longer to use Permsize and MaxPermsize
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2297866
2277129 - Unable to access BI Administrators' Cockpit using https in BI 4.2
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2277129
2266031 - Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8 after configuring for Windows AD SSO in BI 4.2
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2266031
2228083 - BI 4.2 - Tomcat 8 cannot startup when Wily Introscope Agent 9.1.0.2 is configured
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2228083
2112338 - List of Bundled Tomcat and JVM versions shipped with each (support pack) SP of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0/4.1/4.2
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2112338
Video ( SCN recoded webinar & YouTube):
SAP BI 4.1 - Solution Expert Webinars
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56308
BI Upgrade: A Guided Tour of Online Resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWcxShmqVe0&list=PLufF7pZxICBiJqcdJv-L1hVn8ZiWh70kk
Upgrade Process: Moving from BusinessObjects XI Release 2/3.1 and BI 4.0 to BI 4.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhWNsnMZI
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TJXdfAH-Q
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvj_riui50Q
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TJXdfAH-Q
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvj_riui50Q
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade and Update – Best Practices
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