SAP BusinessObjects: Enterprise Administration FastTrack XI 3.0/3.1

Overview

This 5-day course incorporates the Administration & Security, Administering Servers and Designing and Deploying a Solution courses, whilst explaining how to perform the tasks in the Central Management Console (CMC). These tasks involve supporting BusinessObjects Enterprise users and groups so they can access corporate data through BusinessObjects Enterprise's web portal.
In addition you will be taught how to configure and manage the servers in a BusinessObjects Enterprise deployment.
This course is suitable for delegates who use BusinessObjects XI3.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with report creation and analysis from a user perspective.
While not required for this course, experience with these products or technologies will be helpful:
• Windows conventions
• NT enterprise security concepts (global/local groups, and directory structure)

Course Outline.

Preparing, installing and configuring BusinessObjects Enterprise Xi3
• Prepare, install and configure BusinessObjects Enterprise
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Xi3 Architecture
• SAP BusinessObjects architecture & components
Securing SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Content
• Create users, groups, folders and categories
• Understand the security model

Application Security
• Secure SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise applications

Scheduling Content
• Schedule objects
• Schedule with business calendars
• Manage instances

Publishing and Publications
• Publish personalised reports and documents to multiple recipients

Performing Common Server Management Tasks
• The Central Manager (CCM)
• The Server Intelligence Agent (SIA)
• The Central Management Console (CMC)

Managing the Central Management Server and the System Database
• Use the Central Management Server
• Migrate and backup the CMS system data
• Manage auditing
• Describe authentication and single sign-on
• Map third-party accounts to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
• High availability in the intelligence tier
• Clustering CMS for high availability

Managing the file repository servers
• Use & configure the file repository servers

Managing the web application services
• Understand the web application services
• Configure the Java web application server
• Using wdeploy

Managing the Web Intelligence servers
• Web Intelligence servers & configuring them

Managing the adaptive servers
• The role of the adaptive job server
• The role of the adaptive processing server
• Configuring adaptive servers

Managing the event servers
• Understand events in BusinessObjects Enterprise
• Configure the event server

Managing the program job servers
• Use the program job server
• Configure the program job server

Managing the destination job servers
• Using and configuring the destination job server

Performance, scalability, and sizing
• Secured content management plan
• Instance management plan
• System auditing plan
• Managing content in multiple deployments
• Understanding the import wizard
• Managing BusinessObjects Life Cycle Manager
• Managing the federation services

Troubleshooting SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
• Use best practices when troubleshooting
• Use a strategic troubleshooting method

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