SAP has implemented a new Application in the Central Management Console (CMC) called the Recycle Bin Application. The purpose of the Recycle bin is as expected. It allows an administrator to recovery deleted documents as needed. SAP has a detailed Note by Onkar Velhal on how to use the new recycle bin feature: https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-70107 This […]
Tag: System Administration
Monitoring Windows FreeSpace with Slackbot: The Code
In part one of Monitoring Windows Freespace with Slackbot, we got everything set up to use a Slackbot url for posting messages to your Slack team. Now, we are going to take that url and use it in a batch file to send notifications about freespace on your servers hard disks. The end result will […]
Monitoring Windows Freespace with Slackbot: Getting Started
We have been using Slack at EVT for several months now. It has become an integral part of our internal communication. But Slack is not only good at helping you chat with the rest of your team, it also integrates with many of your favorite web services, such as google hangouts. Another thing Slack does […]
End of Support does not equal End of the World
Welcome to 4th Quarter, 2015! Now that we’re closing out the last three months of the year, it’s time to get serious about the End of Support for SAP BusinessObjects XI3.1 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0. Hopefully this isn’t news to you at this point in the year. If it is news, Don’t Panic! […]
Clear the Decks
If you were a fly on the wall in my house this time of year, you’d hear my wife say “Time to clear the decks!”. Every time. It is sort of a tradition. We both have home office space, and both of them get cluttered and piled up with stuff over the course of the […]
SAP BusinessObjects BI System Administration – 2nd Edition!
We are so pleased to announce the release of SAP BusinessObjects BI System Administration 2nd Edition! The book will be available starting October 29th, 2014 on SAP-PRESS in both hardcover and ebook versions. Eric Vallo and I spent our summer months sprucing up our original book to bring it up to date with BI4.1 and all of […]
Restricting access to Views in SAP HANA for SAP Lumira
I recently got asked this by a customer of ours and it sparked the idea to put it into a blog post for those who are looking for a similar solution The blog posts and guides that I found when researching this would grant SAP Lumira access to all the views on your HANA server […]
The Day that Derby Died
Bye, bye Ms. American Pie… and all that jazz. Chalk one up in the win column! One of the smaller bullets in the “What’s New” document for SAP BI4.1 Support Pack 03’s release was the removal of the Apache Derby database usage by the Promotion Management app within the BI Platform. I railed about Derby […]
Struggling to Manage SAP BI4 Version Management
SAP BI4 version management is one of those things that some of us have been dreaming about for a very long time. I remember many moons ago spending several hours a week cutting .biar files and checking them into a version management system for development teams. Clunky but effective. BI4 Version management has the promise […]
Transaction Logs on Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
Dallas Marks recently posted a great primer for customers tinkering with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 running on the default CMS and Audit database, SQL Anywhere (see related article, Getting Somewhere with Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1). He uncovered great information for getting acquainted with SQL Anywhere, querying it, scaling it for a multi-node cluster and more. […]