Product specifications
Caution:
To avoid connection failures, you must make sure your environment provides all the necessary
middleware, otherwise you must set the network layers and databases you only need in the Active
Data Sources section.
By allowing server specialization, this setting also addresses complex deployment scenarios involving
multiple Connection Servers in server mode. For more information about complex deployment scenarios,
see the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform Administrator Guide
.
9.7.1 Setting one connectivity per machine
In complex deployment scenarios, you may want to set up one connectivity per type of machine, for
example you want to connect applications that come with the BI platform to an MS SQL Server database
installed on Microsoft Windows and to an Oracle database installed on a UNIX machine.
To avoid connection failures, you need to do one of the following:
• when doing a custom installation of the BI platform, specify the connectivities you want to deploy
for each type of database you require. You do this when selecting features you would like to install.
• when configuring Connection Server in the cs.cfg file, set the ActiveDataSources section for
the library mode (Library parent element) as you do for the server mode in the CMC. Because
applications first try to establish connections through drivers installed locally, you should configure
the driver filter for both modes in the same way.
9.8 Configuring the CORBA access protocols
You set the CORBA access protocols in the CMC of your BI platform installation. Protocols define
values that Connection Server uses to process requests coming from CORBA clients or HTTP clients.
For more infomation about the CMC, see the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform
Administrator Guide
.
9.9 Activating traces
You can enable traces for all connectivities supported by the Data Access layer (ODBC, JDBC, Javabean,
OLE DB, OCI, JCo, etc.). The Connection Server tracing process relies on the BusinessObjects TraceLog
logging and tracing facility.
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