Tomcat Upgrade to 6

server administration XI Server Discussion
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Hi All,

Can you guys suggest the steps or point me to right documentation for upgrading tomcat 5x of BOXI 3.1 to Tomcat 6x?

Thanks,

Benking

benking1974 (BOB member since 2010-08-24)

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I do not believe Tomcat 6 is supported for BOXI 3.1 (it is for BOXI 4).

kevlray :us: (BOB member since 2010-06-23)

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Tomcat 6 (6.0.18 to be exact) is supported in BO XI 3.1 SP3.

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

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Hi guys,it can be support 6.0.18 from SAP official feedback. Now we have upgrading BO XI from sp3 to sp4 successfully, and Tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0.18 64bit. Hope my answer is what you need.

Jenson (BOB member since 2011-09-21)

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Just a heads up, we’ve noticed that while 6.0.18 is supported in SP3, that some of our Xcelsius dashboards that support QAAWS are not functional. When we checked the supported platforms doc for SP3, there is a footnote that clearly states that 6.0.18 is not supported when Query as a Web Services performance enhancement is activated.

rbarrera (BOB member since 2008-09-03)

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Hi,

Do you know what it is? How can I know if it’s been activated or not? Do I need to ask dashboard developers whether they used it or not?

Thank you.

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

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Did you ever get an answer or link to documentation explaining what is involved to upgrade TomCAT for BoXI?

I just upgraded BoXI to SP5 (& it looks to be ok so far), but I also need to upgrade the default Tomcat 5.5.20 to something newer (probably a version 6xxx) to accomodate client’s upgraded Internet Explorer.

I would be interested in any feedback you may have received.

Carol

carol.gottlieb (BOB member since 2008-10-01)

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I’ve always found Tomcat installs to be failry painless - typically I stop Tomcat, rename that install folder, and then run the new installer. Once you have Tomcat, just deploy all the WAR files and try it out.

Lots of posts out here about doing minor upgrades, should follow those, unless you’re into updating supoorting software, too (java…?).

Good luck!
B

bdouglas :switzerland: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

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Thanks. I got some ‘steps’ from SAP techie also. It doesn’t look too terribly difficult. I was just concerned about making sure that my BoXI & SIA would use the new version. But it sounds pretty simple.

Here are steps I got in case anyone might be interested:
Following are the steps required to install Tomcat 6 :

  1. Following is the link to download Tomcat 6.0.18
    http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe
  2. Run the executable “apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe”. The Welcome screen will appear. Click Next.
  3. Click “I Agree” on the License Agreement screen.
  4. Select the install type from drop down box & click Next.
  5. Enter the destination folder where Tomcat 6 is to be installed. Click Next.
  6. Enter the user name & password for Administrator login & click Next.
  7. Enter the below mentioned path that points to JRE supplied with BOE XI 3.1 Click Install.
  8. Uncheck the “Show Readme” check box. Click Finish.
  9. Tomcat will now start. There will be a small icon in the system tray as shown below.
  10. Right click on the icon & click Configure.
  11. The Apache Tomcat Properties screen will appear. Click on Java tab.
  12. Add the path “D:\Program Files\Business Objects\javasdk\lib\tools.jar” in Java Classpath field
    after the existing entry separated by a semi-colon(;).
  13. Add the value 1024 in Maximum memory pool field.
  14. Add the following values in the Java Options field.
    -Djava.library.path=C:/WINDOWS/system32/;D:/Program Files/Business Objects/BusinessObjects
    Enterprise 12.0/win32_x86/
    -Dbobj.enterprise.home=D:/Program Files/Business Objects/BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0/
    -Daf.configdir=D:/Program Files/Business Objects/Dashboard and Analytics 12.0
    -Xrs
    -XX:MaxPermSize=256M
    -Djava.awt.headless=true
  15. Click on Apply _ OK & restart the Tomcat service.
  16. Open the file config.tomcat6 in Notepad. It can be located in “D:\Program Files\Business
    Objects\deployment” folder.
  17. Uncomment the variable “as_service_name”.
  18. Assign the following values to the respective variables:
    as_dir=<installation directory of Tomcat 6>
    as_instance=localhost
    as_service_name=Tomcat6
  19. Save & close the file.
  20. Open Command Prompt by clicking Start _ Run _ type “cmd” & click OK.
  21. Change the directory to “D:\Program Files\Business Objects\deployment”.
  22. Run the command “wdeploy tomcat6 deployall”.
  23. A BUILD SUCCESSFUL message will appear once deployment of all WAR files is successful.

Now other ‘apps’ may be a different questions. JAVA probably could also be updated depending on the versioning within BoXI. But that is another discussion that I’m not ready to approach. :wink:
Just one step at a time…

Carol

carol.gottlieb (BOB member since 2008-10-01)

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It’s seems to be linked with the Xcelsius Cache Server and Xcelsius Processing Server. have a look to SAP Notes #1627336

bernard timbal :fr: (BOB member since 2003-05-26)

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Thanks but it’s too late, my friend :slight_smile: It’s been more than 2 years since I left the client where I needed it.

But it’s never too late to learn something new, so thank you :+1:

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

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Facing this same question, I searched first on BOB, then on BO-SAP tech support. Found the answer on it ( :+1: ) then tried to share it with you updating the two posts in BOB :mrgreen:

bernard timbal :fr: (BOB member since 2003-05-26)