Below are some issues and how to troubleshoot SAP Business Object Business Intelligence 4.1 installation which I encountered so far.
Below are some issues and how to troubleshoot SAP Business Object Business Intelligence 4.1 installation which I encountered so far.
Environment: Windows 2012 R2
1. Cannot open Central Configuration Manager
Symptoms:
– Installation completed
– You can open both CMC (http://<servername>:<port>/BOE/CMC and BI Launchpad (http://<servername>:<port>/BOE/BI URLs
– When try to open Central Configuration Manager nothing happens
– Cannot open Universal Designer ((IRepo Access::Retreive Auth mode Infos) Class not registered error)
Cause:
– It might cause due to incompatibility SAP Business Object BI installed on Windows Server 2012
– Other cause might be due to wrong version of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package has been installed. During the installation of SAP BI 4.1, different versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package will be installed if they do not already exist on the server.
Make sure you don’t have any other version other than below version before you install SAP BO BI 4.1, otherwise you might encounter issue.
Solutions:
– Check the compatibility matrix and make sure your SAP Business Object BI is at least 4.1 SP 2 version for Windows 2012
– If you found there’s other version than below version for Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 and 2010, then you need to uninstall them and you must do clean uninstall your SAP BO BI 4.1 (see section below) before you can reinstall it.
– If your SAP Business Object BI is not compatible, the you must do clean uninstallation (see section below) before you reinstall with the correct version
2. Cannot load CMC and BI Launchpad
Symptom:
– Installation completed
– You can open Central Configuration Manager and other services and client such as Web rich Client and Universal Designer
– However when you try to open both (http://<servername>:<port>/BOE/CMC and BI Launchpad (http://<servername>:<port>/BOE/BI URLs you get error 404
– You verified that tomcat service being used for SAP BI is running fine
Cause: The CMC application was not deployed properly since the JAVA_HOME was not set correctly.
Solution:
– Right click on Computer and select Properties.
– Click Advanced system settings.
– Click Environment Variables.
– Set JAVA_HOME variable to folder where you installed JRE.
– Select Path under System variables and click Edit.
– Add <SAP BusinessObjects_install_directory>\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\sapjvm\bin in the Variable_value and click OK.
– Stop the Tomcat server from Central Configuration Manager.
– Go to <SAP BusinessObjects_install_directory>\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy\conf\.
– Open config.tomcat6 (or config.tomcat7 in BI4.1) in a notepad and change the following:
o as_dir=Tomcat installation directory.
o as_instance=localhost
o as_service_name=name of Tomcat service (open Start Menu -> All Programs -> Apache Tomcat <version> -> Configure Tomcat and note the Service Name).
– Open <SAP BusinessObjects_install_directory>\SAP BusinessObjects\ SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy\ in command prompt.
– Run wdeploy.bat tomcat6 –DAPP=BOE deploy. (or wdeploy.bat tomcat7 –DAPP=BOE deploy in BI4.1)
How to completely remove/uninstall SAP BO BI 4.x from your system
– Go to Start > All Programs > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and uninstall all the SAP BO patches in the reverse order.
– Select the base install of SAP BusinessObjects BI (SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0), click on remove.
– Once it is finished, reboot the server once.
– Remove SAP BusinessObjects folder from <Install Directory>Program Files.
– Click on Start > Run > type regedit, which will open Windows registry window.
– Right click on My computer and take the backup entire registry by clicking on export.
– Clean the following location in the registry
o -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects
o -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAP Business Objects
o -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>SAP Business Objects
o -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\SAP Business Objects
– Go to C:\documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp. The Local Settings folder may be hidden.
– Click on enable the option for “Show hidden files and folder” and uncheck the option for “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”
– Backup the Temp folder and delete all the files inside Temp. Don’t delete the Temp folder.
– Go to C:\WINDOWS.
– Search for “Installer” directory.
– Enable “Author” details.
– Delete all the files with “SAP Business Objects” as Author.