SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration

Gary Scott

Mar 28, 2012 9:28 PM

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Hi All,

Great to see that Life Cycle Manager is now bundled with the SAP BI 4 platform.

I have been trying to configure the tool via the Administration Options based on the settings I know have worked in several Life Cycle Manager installations I have done on XI 3.1.

Has anything changed with the XI 4 configuration because no matter what I try I keep receiving the following error when I try to launch the Version Management System?

com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: com.businessobjects.vms.VMSException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "E:\BOXI4\SAP": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

I have looked at the Life Cycle Manager 4 manual and nothing seems to have changed configuration wise there either?

Can anyone explain why this may not be working? Any pointers?

Thanks - Gary

Re: SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration

Sebastian Wiefett Mar 29, 2012 10:31 AM (in response to Gary Scott)

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Hi,
for me the Path "E:\BOXI4\SAP" doesnt look correctly. It only points to a Direcotry instead of an executable.
Check the path in a working XI 3.1 Environment to which exec it points. Search this exec in BI4 and point to Path to it.
Regards
-Seb.
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- Re: SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration
  
  Denis Konovalov Mar 29, 2012 2:23 PM (in response to Sebastian Wiefett)
  
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  sounds like SVN wasn't configured/installed properly.... there should be some SAP KB's/Notes on this.
  
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    Gary Scott Mar 30, 2012 10:43 AM (in response to Denis Konovalov)
    
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    Hi Denis,
    Can you give me the SAP KB/Note number please ?
    Thanks - Gary
    
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      Denis Konovalov Mar 30, 2012 1:24 PM (in response to Gary Scott)
      
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      You can try this :
      1645887 - How-to configure LifeCycle Manager (LCM) with
      subversion (svn) using http
      1632394 - Version management error when logging
      in(com.businessobjects.vms.vmsException:svn:Network)
      1543777 - Error while logging into Version Management of Life
      Cycle Management
      1415280 - How to install Subversion
      1377057 -
      How to configure the Subversion repository
      
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      - Re: SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration
        
        Gary Scott Apr 12, 2012 5:32 PM (in response to Denis Konovalov)
        
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        Hi Denis,
        
        This wasn't my exact problem but your notes/guidance above helped guide me along the right lines in solving the problem.
        
        My subversion directory needed to be pointed to the E: drive where the SAP BI 4 installation was and the directory of course needed to be specified with forward slashes rather than back slashes in the Version Management settings/configuration setting.
        
        e.g. for example - E:/BOXI4/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/subversion.
        
        All working now. So many thanks.
        
        Thanks,
        Gary
        
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        Re: SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration
        
        Zhang JiWen Apr 13, 2012 3:15 AM (in response to Gary Scott)
        
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        Hi Gary,
             Congratulations to you that you have solved the problem.
             However,in our BO BI4.0 FP3 system,the VMS can lanch without error using back slashes,like below:
             When I click the "Test VMS",an error occured like below:
        I'd like to know the reason too,any idea?.
        
        Best regards,
        Sciano
        
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        Re: SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration
        
        Gary Scott Apr 13, 2012 1:43 PM (in response to Zhang JiWen)
        
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        Hi Sciano,
        
        After re-testing/re-checking I conclude that you are indeed correct.
        
        So the real problem after further investigation was because Subversion didn't install properly and/or because (possibly) it was not installed to the Business Objects default installation path e.g. (C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP Business Objects .......) the Version Management settings were not implemented correctly as I noticed on our test server we do not have the same problem and the Version Management settings have picked up the installation path correctly.
        
        As soon as I have put in the path I have mentioned above Life Cycle Manager has started working.
        
        I am using BOXI 4 SP2 Patch 12.
        
        Thanks,
        Gary
        
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        Re: SAP BI 4 Life Cycle Manager Configuration
        
        Ladislav Varga Apr 26, 2012 1:22 PM (in response to Zhang JiWen)
        
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        Hi, everybody,
        
        if you are looking for, where are the Administration Options/ VMS Settings of the LCM in the Feature Pack 3 (FP3)? You can find them in the Applications/ Version Management.
        
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