BO 6.5 Server Upgrade

system · November 5, 2009, 3:03am

We wanted to move out our BO 6.5 application from VMWare to a more powerful server. As I am new in admnistering BO, I hope to get some guide on how to do this and what to look out for during the activity.

The operating system of the BO machine is Windows 2003. The repository is in Oracle 9i db which sits on an AIX server.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Hype (BOB member since 2009-11-03)

system · November 6, 2009, 2:36pm

He He

Practically I’m doing the same in the same days.
Tell me what you need to know and what tools you have.

Aldo

AldoWeb (BOB member since 2005-05-24)

system · November 9, 2009, 6:17am

Hi Aldo,

Basically, I need to move the BO apps in VM image to another server. What I know is:

Install Apache/Tomcat
Install BO

What is the next step to this? Especially on migrating objects/files from the VM image to the other server.

Hope you could help out.

Thanks a lot.

Hype (BOB member since 2009-11-03)

system · November 11, 2009, 4:12pm

Well . . .
After installing apache and tomcat you have to install a connector too.
I have used the JK connector.
Than when everything is ready you have to give some rights to the user starting BO Start, Configure Server will ask you those permitions in start.
than configure the ORB-s as needed.

Tell me in details what else doubts you may have.

Aldo

AldoWeb (BOB member since 2005-05-24)

system · November 16, 2009, 5:34am

Thanks, Aldo for responding.

I hope you can still accommodate a few questions:

What should I move from the old machine to the new?
How about the reports? Some said I need to export them then import on the new. How is this done?

Thanks again.

Hype (BOB member since 2009-11-03)

system · November 17, 2009, 7:52am

Hi Hype

Normally the BO full Client Reports reside in the BO Repository Database.
So you don’t have to move them.
Basically you install the new server and configure it.
Plain and simple, you don’t move manually nothing (the user configurations of WebI will be reset, maybe you can copy the storage directory but I don’t suggest that)

Aldo

AldoWeb (BOB member since 2005-05-24)