Hey Folks…
Could someone be so kind as to answer a few questions… We’re “forging” ahead with WEB technology and are about to install WEBI and migrate some of our client based user’s over. I was wondering the following…
Can I put all the ODBC/connectivity software (DB2/Informix/Oracle/Sybase) on the WEB server?
Right now, our Universe’s reside on Novell Server’s where the client grabs the executables… Do I move those Universe’s over to the WEB server and if so do I also move the BOMAIN.KEY?
Thanks for your patience on this one!!
Michael Dempsey
Data Base Administration
UNC Health Care System
919.966.4696
Why don’t you store your universes in the repository? Hate to answer your question with a question, but that is why the repo is there for change control and storage so that everyone uses the same universe. You can store the universe on the web server, although I forget the actual path at the moment (I’ll let you know later in case someone hasn’t answered by then).
If you install the Supervisor module on the server, which I suggest for troubleshooting purposes, then you can recover the bomain.key file. You could also copy the bomain.key file over to the server.
Hey Jodie…
Thanks for your response… It’s probably my inexperience with the client based product, but I thought that the B.O. client pointed to where the Universe’s are stored. We have our repo in DB2 mainframe. I thought just the internal definitions of a Universe were stored in the repo and the actual “working” copy was on a server where the rest of the B.O. executables/file structures are. Thanks…
Michael Dempsey
Data Base Administration
UNC Health Care System
919.966.4696
This is true, but when a universe is stored in the repository, your WebI users will be able to see them and use them. When a user access a universe, the WebI server will see if it has a local copy (i.e. a copy on the WebI server). If not, it will automatically download the universe from the repository. Basically, the exact same process that occurs on each full client machine.