Purpose:

The purpose of this document is to improve performance of SAP Business Objects Data Services Management console 4.x.

Overview:

Environment Details:

Operating system: Windows Server 2008 64 Bit

Database:Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Web Application:Tomcat

SAP Business Objects Tools:SAP Business Objects Information Platform Services 4.1 SP2; SAP Data Services 4.2 SP1

Repository version:BODS 4.X

I got real problems with performance in SAP Business Objects Data Services Management Console. For instance, my real time services, Jobs & Adapters were opening very long time.

All Status in SAP Business Objects Data Services Management Console will take more time to load

In LINUX Operating System below are the settings:

Let's modify the Tomcat setting, because by default they have low value.
JavaHeapSize (-Xmx) from 2G to 4G
MaxThreads from default (200) to 900
JavaHeapSize we should modify:

cd <boe/boips inst folder>/sap_bobj/tomcat/bin

modify setenv.sh

# set the JAVA_OPTS for tomcat

Code:

JAVA_OPTS="-d64 -Dbobj.enterprise.home=${BOBJEDIR}enterprise_xi40 -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=false –Xmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=384m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xloggc:<bo_inst_folder>/sap_bobj/tomcat/logs/tomcat.gc.log -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+UseParallelOldGC"

MaxThreads we would modify:

cd <boe/boips_inst_folder>/sap_bobj/tomcat/conf modify
server.xml
Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080

Code:

-->
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" maxThreads="900" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>

Cleaning of old installed patches and service packs from BOE/BOIPS. What does it mean?
Just go to <boe/boips inst folder> and run ./modifyOrRemoveProducts.sh (for Linux):
It is clear that i have many various installation on my server. But it is important to delete old installation!
Cleaning of log directory, in <boe/boips inst folder>/sap_bobj/tomcat/logs
Cleaning of logging directory, in <boe/boips inst folder>/sap_bobj/logging
Cleaning of Access Server old logs directory, in <boe/boips inst folder>/DataServices/conf/<Access Server Name>error<date>.txt & trace<date>.txt old logs
Cleaning of Job Server old logs directory, in <boe/boips inst folder>/DataServices/adapters/logs
Cleaning of old Adapter logs directory, in <boe/boips inst folder>/adapters/logs
Cleaning of old RFC logs directory, in <boe/boips inst folder>/
Deleting Trace-Files
Setting in Central management console to delete old logs of Data services older than 5 days

By Default:

After doing changes:

Tuning APS, for start you can use CMC Wizard.
APS properties for tracing set to unspecified (-> means bo_trace.ini are used)

In Windows Operating System below are the settings:

Let's modify the Tomcat setting, because by default they have low value.
JavaHeapSize (-Xmx) from 2048 to 4096
MaxThreads from default (200) to 900

Code:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\sapjvm\

set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=384m

Path: cd <boe/boips inst folder>/SAP BusinessObjects\tomcat\bin\setenv

Path: cd <boe/boips inst folder>/SAP BusinessObjects\tomcat\conf\server.xml

Best Architecture for Deployment of SAP Business Objects Data Services:

There are many pros and cons for deployment of SAP Business Objects Data Services with SAP BOE 4.X, as per the Best practices below are the possible scenario