SAP BO Administration - Servers

Adaptive Job Server

A generic server that processes scheduled lobs. When you add a Job server to the BI platform system. you can configure the Job server to process reports. documents. programs. or pubpcations and send the results to different destinations.

Adaptive Processing Server

A generic server that hosts services responsible for processing requests from a variety of sources.

The installation program installs one Adaptive Processing Server (APS) per host system. Depending on the features that you ve installed. Ms APS may most a large number of services. such as the Monitoring Service. Lifecycle Management Service. Mufti-Dimensional Analysis Service (MDAS), Pubpshing Service, and others.

Central Management Server (CMS)

Maintains a database of information about your BI platform System (in the CMS System database) and audited user actions (in the Auditing Data store). All platform service, are managed by the CMS The CMS site Controls access to the system files where documents are stored, and information on users user groups. security levels (including authentication and authorization), and content.

Connection Server

Provides database access to Source data. It supports relational databases, as well as OLAP and other formats. The Connection Server is responsible for handpng connection and interaction with the various data sources and providing a Common feature set to cpents.

Crystal Reports Cache Server

Intercepts report requests sent from cpents to the page server. If the cache server cannot fulfill the request with a cached report page, it passes the request on to the Crystal Reports Processing server, which runs the report and returns the results. The cache server then caches the report page for potential future use.

Crystal Reports Processing Server

Responds to page requests by processing reports and generating encapsulated page format (EPE) pages. The key benefit of EPE is that it supports page-on-demand access, so only the requested page is returned, not the entire report. This improves system performance and reduces unnecessary network traffic for large reports.

Dashboards Cache Server

Intercepts report requests sent from cpents to the Dashboard server. If the cache server cannot fulfill the request with a cached report page, it passes the request on to the Dashboard server, which runs the report and returns the results. The cache server then caches the report page for potential future use.

Dashboards Processing Server

Responds to Dashboards requests by processing reports and generating encapsulated page format (EPF) pages. The key benefit of EPF is that it supports page-on-demand access, so only the requested page is returned, not the entire report. This improves system performance and reduces unnecessary network traffic for large reports.

Event Server

Monitors the system for events, which can act as a trigger for running a report. When you set up an event trigger, the Event Server monitors the condition and notifies the CMS that an event has occurred The CMS can then start any jobs that are set to run upon the event. The Event Server manages file-based events that occur in the storage tier.

File Repository Server

Responsible for the creations of file system objects, such as exported reports, and imported files in non-native formats. An Inputs FRS stores reports and program objects that have been pubpshed to the system by administrators or end users. An Output FRS stores all of the reports instances generated by the Job Server.