SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics 7.1 Managed System Configuration For SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation
SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics 7.1 Managed System Configuration For SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation
Applies to:
SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation, version for 7.5 and 10.0. As Managing System an SAP
Solution Manager 7.1 SP03 or higher is required unless mentioned otherwise.
Summary
SAP Business Objects Financial 7.5 and 10.0 have been integrated into Solution Manager 7.1 to support
Root Cause Analysis application SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics (SMD). This document describes how
to setup and configure SMD of an SAP Solution Manager managing system with and for BOFC managed
system.
Author Bio
Ravikanth Bulusu (Rob) works for SAP US, Active Global Support. His area of specialization
includes development, implementation of SAP Business Process Operations - RUN SAP Like
a Factory, integration of E2E Root Cause Analysis, and Diagnostics support integration into
Solution Manager.
Morgan Che is working for SAP China, Active Global Support. His current focus area is the
support of SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation solutions.
As product integrator, Morgan works on SAP Solution Manager Diagnostic content for SAP and
Business Objects products and applications.
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Table of Contents
How to use this document .................................................................................................................................. 3
Managed System Setup and Configuration in Solution Manager 7.1 (SP03 and higher) .................................. 3
Prerequisites ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Managed System Setup for SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation 7.5/10.0 ................................... 4
Technical system setup for SAP BOFC Application Server ......................................................................................... 4
Technical system setup for SAP BOFC Web Server ................................................................................................. 10
Diagnostics Configuration for BOFC Server ................................................................................................. 13
Diagnostics Configuration for BOFC Application Server ............................................................................................ 13
Diagnostics Configuration for BOFC Web Server ...................................................................................................... 17
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Copyright........................................................................................................................................................... 22
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Managed System Setup and Configuration in Solution Manager 7.1 (SP03 and higher)
SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics in SAP Solution Manager depends on the definition of technical systems
in SAP Solution Manager System Landscape Directory. In the following, we describe the steps required to
create or maintain the technical systems for SAP BOFC.
Prerequisites
Before starting configuring a technical system for diagnostics in SAP Solution Manager, we have to ensure
that the following prerequisites are all fulfilled:
1. Basic Configuration of SAP Solution Manager
Before starting the managed system setup and configuration of a technical system for SAP Solution
Manager Diagnostics in SAP Solution Manager, you have to ensure the prerequisites referred in the
below page are fulfilled:
To install and configure it, please see SAP Note 1126554 – Wily Introscope .Net Agent.
5. Managed System has been installed
Before setting up technical system in Solution Manager, please ensure BOFC 7.5 or 10.0 server has
been correctly installed on the host or virtual system.
For more information about BOFC system installation, please refer to the BOFC installation guide
published at the below link:
https://websmp210.sap-ag.de/instguide ->SAP BusinessObjects -> SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Performance Management (EPM) ->Financial Consolidation
6. Ncs.conf and SapAgentConfig,xml file should be customized accordingly
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Ncs.conf is a configuration file on BOFC server side, which plays a switch role to enable NCS
(Native Component Supportability) based instrumentations for Enterprise Manager and is also
precondition for Working Loading Analysis of BOFC Application Server in Solution Manager.
Additionally, SapAgentConfig.xml should be uploaded to Solution Manager to ensure WMI and NCS
instrumentation function work.
To download Ncs.conf & SapAgentConfig.xml file and configure them, please refer to SAP Note
1365266- RCA:Managed System Setup for BOBJ Financial Cons. 10.5-7.5.
7. Managed System is connected to SLD infrastructure
In order to enable a central maintenance of systems in SAP Solution Manager, we need to setup a
SLD infrastructure to which each managed system is connected to. There are several possibilities
how this infrastructure can be designed.
For More information of this topic, please refer to SAP Note 1148028
9. Solution Manager Support Package version requirements
To check Solution Manager Support Package version requirements for BOFC diagnostic functions,
please refer to SAP Note 1010428 ->End-to-End Diagnostics.
10. Landscape Fetch Job in SAP Solution Manager is scheduled
System landscape maintenance in SAP Solution Manager retrieves the system landscape data
regularly from the configured SLD. This is done via the landscape fetch job which is normally
scheduled during configuration. We can reschedule this job via transaction SMSY_SETUP.
Managed System Setup for SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation 7.5/10.0
For Solution Manager 7.1, SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation Application Server and Web
Server use the different method for technical system setup. Here, we individually present the setup process
for both servers.
For more information about Solution Manager 7.1 SP01, you can refer to the following information:
SAP Note 1583348 – Documentation: SAP Solution Manager 7.1
SAP Note 1431633 – SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Installation
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2. In “Technical System Editor”, choose Unspecific Cluster System (UNSPEDIFIC) in dropdown list and
click “Next” to continue.
3. In “System Name”, input System Name that will display in Solution Manager later on.
In “Technology Type”, select SBOP Financial Consolidation (BOFC_Cluster) in dropdown list.
In “Central Host Name”, input the server name. In the end, click “Next”.
4. Click “Save” to finish Technical System creation. And then, the Technical System Editor dialogue will
pop up, which allows us to define more information about our technical system.
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5. There are 4 steps involving in “Technical System Editor”. Let’s start with “Define Header Data”.
In “Define Header Data”, view the information and ensure it is correct. Click “Next” to continue.
6. In “Assign Database”, click “Assign Database System” and choose” Create New Database System”.
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In “Choose System Type” step, ensure the type is Database System (DBSYSTEM).
In step 2 “Define the System”, fill out Database Name, Database Host and Database Type according
to the real situation.
In “Define Extended SID” step, input SID or simply accept the predefined one and click “Save” to
finish the Database system creation.
8. Go back to “Assign Database” dialogue, locate Database instance we created in the previous step
and click “OK” to confirm. Afterwards, click “Next” to continue.
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9. In “Define Technical Instance”, click “Add” and fill out Server Name, Technology Type with “BOFC
Application Server (BOFC_APPServer)” and Host. After completing, choose “Ok” and “Next”.
10. In “Maintain assigned Software” step, click “Add”. In pop-up windows, choose “Used by instance”
and input Fin* as search condition. And then, navigate BOBJ FINANCIALCONS 7.5 or SBOP
FINANCIAL CONS 10.0 depending on the BOFC version installed on the server and click “Add” to
complete software component assignment. Finally, click “Save” to finish Technical System creation.
To view the detailed definition, we can click “Display Navigation Tree”.
In “navigation tree view”, we can evaluate and adjust the definition. If everything is ok, click “Save” to
finish technical system setup.
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3. In Software category->Product Instances tab, choose “Add” to lunch Software Component selection
windows. Input SBOP Fin* as search condition and locate SBOP FINANCIAL CONS 10.0 Fin.Cons
WebServer for SBOP FINANCIAL CONS 10.0 version, and then click “Add”. For BOFC 7.5, we can
use BOBJ FIN* as search condition, navigate BOBJ FINANCIAL CONS 7.5 Web Server for selection.
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4. In Software category->Software Component Version tab, choose “Add”. Highlight “Used by Instance”
in “Select Technical Instances” where the Software Component should be added. Input SBOF Fin*
as search condition and locate SBOP FINANCIAL CONS WEB SITE 10.0 for SBOP FINANCIAL
CONS 10.0 version, and then click “Add”. For the prior versions, such as BOBJ FINANCIALCONS
7.5, we can use BOBJ FIN* as search condition.
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5. In Technical Instance tab, check if the websites and corresponding paths have been correctly
discovered.
6. In Host -> Host Details, check if the host relevant information has been correctly discovered. If they
are all discovered, the technical system setup of BOFC web is done. Otherwise, we should add it by
our own.
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6. In Select Product, click “Edit” to enter edit mode and ensure statues indicator is green. Click “Next” to
finish.
7. The check prerequisites checks if all requirements for configuring diagnostics are fulfilled on the
managed system. Select “Execute” to automatically perform the check. If there are some errors and
warnings, such as Managed System does not meet the Diagnostics prerequisites etc, you can simply
ignore. The detailed results can be accessed through the “Show” link in the log table after selecting
the line item for the check. Click “Next” to jump in the next step.
8. In “Assign Diagnostics Agent” step, please choose the agent we setup on the managed system and
choose “Assign” to attach the agent to the current Solution Manager.
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If there is no agent in “Agent Assignment”, which means the agent has not connected to the
Solution Manager. We should connect it to Solution Manager at first by choosing “Agent
Candidate Administration”.
Input SLD server credentials to access the agent installed on Managed System.
Select the agent that needs to be connected to Solution Manager. Fill out “SMD user” and
“ Password” with the user acount which is able to and click Apply to lunch agent attachment.
When agent state says Associated, go back to Agent Assignment step to finish the agent
assignment.
9. In “Enter System Parameters”, choose Introscope EM in Enter System Parameters, which SMD
agent will collect data from.
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10. In “Enter landscape Parameter” step, click the last row of landscape options and define the actual
path where we install BOFC Applicaiton Server.
Example:
BOFC 7.5 - C:\Program Files\SAP BusinessObjects\
And then, choose “Save Landscape Parameter”. When finishing, choose “Next” to continue.
11. The last step is to configure system by selecting “Execute All”. Ensure all the Status indicators are
green. In case of red indication, please open “Show” link to see the detailed message.
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6. In “Select Product”, ensure to switch edit mode by clicking “Edit” and system information is correct.
Click “Next” to enter next step.
7. The check prerequisites checks if all requirements for configuring diagnostics are fulfilled on the
managed system. Select “Execute” to automatically perform the check. If there are some errors,
such as Managed System does not fulfil the Diagnostics prerequisites etc, please simply ignore. The
detailed results can be accessed through the “Show” link in the log table after selecting the line item
for the check.
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8. In “Assign Diagnostics Agent”, please choose the agent we setup on managed system and choose
“Assign” to attach the agent to the Solution Manager you are working on.
If there is no agent in Agent Assignment, which means the agent has not connected to the
Solution Manager. We can connect it to Solution Manager at first by choosing “Agent
Candidate Administration” in “SLD Agent Candidates” tab.
Input SLD server credentials to access the agent installed on Managed System.
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Select the agent that needs to be connected to Solution Manager. Input SMD user name
and password and click “Apply” to lunch agent attachment process.
When agent state indicates Associated, go back to “Agent Assignment” step to finish agent
assignment by click “Assign” button.
9. In “Enter System Parameters”, choose Introscope EM in Enter System Parameters, which SMD
agent will collect data from.
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10. In “Enter landscape Parameter” step, ensure the information displaying here is correct and click
“Next”.
11. The step 6 is to configure system by selecting “Execute All”. Ensure all the Statuses are green. If
there are warnings or errors, please click “Show” link in log table for see the detailed information.
Here, we finish Managed system setup for BOFC App server and Web server.
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Related Content
SAP Note 1265070 - Diagnostics - Setup of Managed Systems
SAP Note 1365266 - RCA: Managed System Setup for BOBJ Financial Cons. 10.5-7.5
SAP Note 1126554 - CA Wily Introscope .Net agent installation
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