Self Service BusinessObjects Administration Minith Patel Sr. Consultant@InfoSol

Why BO Administration is overlooked Majority of the Organizations Do not have dedicated BO admins Deemed not required as FTE Administration tasks are normally handled by Developers or Senior team members Companies do not want to perform Application maintenance and keep up to date with the latest version (time and cost) BO is not utilized as a Enterprise Reporting Solution Lack of In-depth technical Knowledge © InfoSol 2018

How can Business Objects Administration be self service Unique CMC features can be assigned to required groups/individuals Security can be setup to as what these users and groups can do Monitoring of BO can be provided to Network/Basis department © InfoSol 2018

Which tasks can be easily distributed Create Users and Groups Promotion Of Objects BI Workspace Creation and Assignment Monitoring BO Sessions Management Basic checklist and access to trouble shoot BO issues Schedule Probes for Basic System check Example Helpdeskuser monitoringuser promotionuser © InfoSol 2018

How to setup CMC tab restriction Documentation on CMC tab restrictions: Please follow the link for admin guide and go to page no. 368. https://help.sap.com/doc/businessobject_product_guides_sbo42_en_sbo42sp2_bip_admin_en_pdf/4.2.2/en-US/sbo42sp2_bip_admin_en.pdf   Also refer the KBA: 2197520 - Non-Administrator users can't view Sessions in CMC homepage For improved system security, only members of the Administrators group can access the following CMC tabs: Auditing Authentications Cryptographic Keys License Keys Monitoring Sessions Settings User Attribute Management © InfoSol 2018

Setup of CMC tab access configuration © InfoSol 2018

CMC Tab Configuration for Groups 11/13/2018 Let's Speak BO Webinar Series

Use Helpdesk group to Create/Assign user groups © InfoSol 2018

New user Creation Sample work flow for AD users © InfoSol 2018

Windows AD groups for each folder (Users get Added to AD) BO Group User account gets Created via AD Assigned Manually Folders Security is setup for that group on any required Folder Reports NO security should be applied on individual report level Finance Finance Finance Finance HR HR HR HR HR HR PY HR PY HR PY HR PY HR PY HR PY Special Special Assorted © InfoSol 2018

Promotion Of Objects by a user/group © InfoSol 2018

Promotion Manager Access to Promotion Manager Access to required folders Security can be customized © InfoSol 2018

Secure Promotion Manager © InfoSol 2018

Simple things to make life easy Limits on Instances Recycle bin Purge after X days Notifications – Future and Present Provide Origin and destination information in Promotion manager with Host name Schedule Probes to perform basic system check and send results to a group or user © InfoSol 2018

Set limits to instances in BO for Auto Cleanup © InfoSol 2018

Recycle Bin Feature – Save disk space © InfoSol 2018

BI WorkSpace Setup Custom Landing page for users/group showing them important reports and data that they need to work with on Day to day basis This Design and Maintenance can be assigned to a user or group © InfoSol 2018

Schedule Probes for basic system check © InfoSol 2018

Schedule Probes to check basic system performance and send results to user or groups © InfoSol 2018

Schedule Probes to check basic system performance © InfoSol 2018

Sample check list to check BO issues Provide access to CCM Provide access to Tomcat server and Link Provide WACS link Provide access to CMC and servers in CMC Instructions on how to restart BO (Tc S S Tc) Access to Run Probes © InfoSol 2018

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