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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Auditor Configuration & Deployment End to EndPosted by Manikandan Elumalai in BI Platform on 07-Jan-2013 07:23:37

Hi Readers, This is one of the frequently asked question in our forum and most of the steps are already there in our forum. Since I got a chance to work with this, am sharing the step by step configuration of Audit reports with screen captures.

Introduction BusinessObjects Enterprise Auditor provides you with a way to monitor and record key facts about your deployment. Auditor also allows you to better administer individual user accounts and reports by giving you more insight into what actions users are taking and which reports they are accessing. The information provided by the auditor answers the following queries.

Who is using your Business Objects Enterprise system? 1.

Which objects they are accessing? 2.

Which groups within the company use our BusinessObjects Enterprise system the most? 3.

And below are some of the auditable actions

Track when Objects are created, deleted of modified•

Track when reports are opened, saved, refreshed, created, modified and deleted•

Job monitoring and failure •

Auditor Configuration In SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 auditing database schema was changed, improved. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 does not include auditing sample Universe and auditing sample reports with the installation.

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Configuration in CMC

To configure Audit database in BI 4.0, you need to follow the steps below

Login to CMC and click on Auditing from Manage. 1.

In the ADS database configuration select type of the database. 2.

Provide the credentials of the database and click on save.3.

4. You need to restart the Central management server (CMS) hence log off from CMC. 5. Open Central configuration manager (CCM) and restart the Server Intelligence Agent. 6. Wait for some time so that all the servers will come up because the Adaptive processing server should be running completely to enable auditing.

Auditor deployment package and contents

Compared to previous versions of BusinessObjects, Installation package will not come with a default Audit universe and reports. But SAP comes up with as- is sample to help administrators and report designers to develop custom auditing reports. This would be a starting point of the development of custom auditing universe and reports as per the requirement. Please refer http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-6175 to know more. The Audit Sample package contains: a) Seven sample auditing .UNX universes one for each of the following database types: b) Thirty-eight sample Crystal Reports referencing the universe. Deployment and configuration of Audit Universe



http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-6175




To deploy Auditing universe please follow the steps:

In SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Information Design Tool create a new project and retrieve the sample auditing universe into it. This will result in a 3 objects appearing in your project: a connection, (.cnx or .cns), a data layer, (.dfx), and a business layer (.blx)

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2. In Information Design Tool create a connection (.cnx or .cns) to your auditing data store (for SAP Business Objects 4.0. Then change the connection of the dfx to use the one you have created.






3. In Information Design Tool check integrity of the universe before re-publishing. Please ignore all cardinality and unlinked table warnings.

4. In Information Design Tool publish the modified universe to your SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system. If you are using a .cnx, you will be prompted to create and switch to a secure, published .cns connection. You can publish your .cnx connection to your SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise repository to generate a secured .cns. Deployment and configuration of Audit Reports

In Crystal Reports Design for 4.0 open the sample auditing reports1.

2. Click the ‘Data’ menu and ‘Set Data Source Location’ to point the report to the auditing universe published in the previous step.






3. Publish the sample reports to the SAP Business Objects Enterprise






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Audit reports are deployed in your BusinessObjects environment. You can now start using the deployed reports. Hope this is interesting and useful. We will see BusinessObjects Monitoring in my next few blogs.11828 Views Tags: audit, bo4.0

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S J 22-Mar-2013 17:43

Hi, Its really good and helpful document. Still I am not sure why I am not able to connect to auditing universe. we are on bo 4.o sp4 p6 and 2011 crystal as client tool First time trying to create crystal report based on sample report Procedure what I followed: 1. copied audit sample file on my client desktop2. launched crystal 20113. opened "User-most active " sample report4. Selected "set data source location"5. Selected "Universe" from replace option6. provided system ID and password7. selected audit universe Now once I click on audit universe, I dont see universe itself.... But On same universe webi, explorer reports are working fine. some one please help me out.. Thanks in advance...

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Manikandan Elumalai 22-Mar-2013 17:51 (in response to S J)

Hello SJ, Please note Crystal 2011 uses 32 bit connection contrary to 64 bit connection used by others such as WebI and explorer. Instead I would suggest you to try with Crystal Enterprise. Regards Mani

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S J 22-Mar-2013 17:58 (in response to Manikandan Elumalai)

Hi, So you do not recommend crystal 2011.. Actually we dont have plan to install crystal enterprise, still could you let me know on what name I can find this software in sap market place? Thanks


Have you did the BI4 complete install. CE comes with BI4 installation bundle.






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S J 22-Mar-2013 18:20 (in response to Manikandan Elumalai)

Hi, Yes we did..I see it in BI.. As I mentioned above my client do not have any idea to install crystal enterprise on client machines. If I launch crystal enterprise through BI, its asking me to install crystal enterprise client tool on local machine. So only I am trying to avoid it. We already installed crystal 2011 on clients machines. Really thanks for comments and suggestions

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I suggested you to use the CE installed in BOE server instead of client side installation. since Audit reports export is going to be a one time activity, I followed this way

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Atul Divekar 26-Mar-2013 06:46

Hello Mani, Thank you so much for sharing this document .. this is really nice document. Regards,Atul.

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Mark Richardson 03-Apr-2013 20:50

This was a helpful guide - but since I am running my CMS and AUDIT databases on Oracle...I also needed to follow the instructions in the thread below... BusinessObjects 4.0 Oracle Audit Universe woes http://bihappyblog.com/2012/08/28/businessobjects-4-0-oracle-audit-universe-woes/

Mark Richardson 04-Apr-2013 00:54 (in response to Mark Richardson)

Sample RPT ran OK from the Desktop version of "Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0" after I followed the instructions in Manikandan's posting - but it gave a "Conversion from UTF8 to charset failed : Encoding not loaded" error when SCHEDULE or VIEW from the CMC. This was the Fix for that.... http://mysapbi.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/crystal-reports-conversion-from-utf8-to-charset-failed/



http://bihappyblog.com/2012/08/28/businessobjects-4-0-oracle-audit-universe-woes/

http://mysapbi.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/crystal-reports-conversion-from-utf8-to-charset-




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Thomas Russell 09-Apr-2013 16:46

I have followed your steps but it gives me this error:You cannot publish the universe because it references an unsecured connection. when I try to publish the universe. Any idea to why? Thanks!

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Mark Richardson 09-Apr-2013 17:18 (in response to Thomas Russell)

What is the database you are connecting to...? I had the same error when I was connecting to Audit Connection running on Oracle DB, had to follow the two steps that I added in the posts above.

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Thomas Russell 09-Apr-2013 17:50 (in response to Mark Richardson)

SQl Server '08 R2. What do you mean by Proper Owner? Context? I have BOE140_Audit as Qualifier and dbo as Owner. I changed BOE140_Audit to BOE120_Audit which is the schema that I want. Still doesn't work. I am also trying different Owners too. Thanks!

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Manikandan Elumalai 10-Apr-2013 09:06 (in response to Thomas Russell)

Hello Thomas, Your connection should be of .cnx type instead of .cns type. Then only you should be able to export the universe to repository. Regards,Mani

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Parthiban Ganesh 31-May-2013 08:37

Thanks for Sharing

Carter Russell 30-Jul-2013 17:51

Manikandan: What options/configuration needs to be setup within CMC Audit section in order to report off of BW roles to BOBJ users relationships?






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Thanks!

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Arvind Pandalai 19-Sep-2013 16:06

Hello Mani; I am also curious to know the audit that can be performed for BW functions. It would be great if you could share a blog for the same as well. Thank you.

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Keith Fisher 22-Nov-2013 11:35

Hi, I have set up the audit universe and CR for Enterprise reports in a couple of places in the last two weeks, however both times they suffered from being unable to refresh reports that had date prompts. The query compiled by CR for Ent was trying to send American (mm/dd/yyyy) date formats to the database instead of UK English ones (dd/mm/yyyy). Nothing I cold think of to change (the odbc connection regional settings, the language settings of the IDT and Crystal, the language settings of the SQL 2008 user) made any difference - are there some settings in CR for Enterprise iteself that will help? thanksKeith






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