Introduction

This chapter reviews the administration tools for BusinessObjects Enterprise, including best practices and other important information related to the management of the BusinessObjects Enterprise system. Also covered are common system administration tasks such as adding new users, groups, folders, documents, and reports, as well as configuring various BusinessObjects Enterprise server components. The primary application for managing the BusinessObjects Enterprise objects and components is the Central Management Console. A supplement to the Central Management Console is the Central Configuration Manager, a Windows-based application for managing certain server functions. The reason for a separate Central Configuration Manager is because the CMC is a Web-based management application. If the primary Web server to which BusinessObjects Enterprise is tied were to become unavailable, the Central Configuration Manager provides backup server management capabilities.

Note

Although this chapter deals with the out-of-the-box BusinessObjects Enterprise administrative functions, the BusinessObjects Enterprise Software Development Kit provides programmatic access to the capabilities provided through the CMC.