To configure CA Business Intelligence for CA MDM, perform configuration steps on multiple components.
CA Business Intelligence is a set of reporting and analytics software used by CA MDM and various other CA Technologies products. CA MDM uses CA Business Intelligence to integrate, analyze, and present vital information required for effective mobile device management through various reporting options.
CA Mobile Device Management (MDM) is an enterprise solution for securing and managing mobile users, devices, applications, and content (data) with your enterprise policies.
The first step in integrating CA Business Intelligence with CA Mobile Device Management is to verify the prerequisites.
CA Business Intelligence requires an Open Database Connection (ODBC) connection to the CA MDM database (SQL Server) to create and view reports on CA Mobile Device Management.
To import the CA MDM BIAR file, use the BIConfig utility. The BiConfig utility takes inputs from the command line and an XML file that describes the configuration updates to be performed on the Business Objects environment.
Index the Information Space to make the information spaces available to the Explorer users. The indexing process generates the metadata that is required for the Explorer Search engine and publishes the Information Space to the list of available Information Spaces on the Home Page.
The Mobile Server is a web application server and receives requests that are sent by the Mobile client and passes it to the CA BI platform server, and sends response to the Mobile client. The default installation location for the Mobile Server 3.1 SP6 is C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting3.
Provide access rights for controlling user access to the objects, users, applications, servers, and other features in your BusinessObjects environment. Use the Central Management Console (CMC) to provide the access rights to run the CA MDM reports.
When you import the MDM BIAR file to an existing CA Business Intelligence environment, you need to assign appropriate Access Levels to the other CA Product user groups.
Provide access rights for controlling user access to the objects, users, applications, servers, and other features in your BusinessObjects environment. Use the Central Management Console (CMC) to provide the access rights.
Use the following as a guide to assign access rights that are based on user roles in an existing CA Business Intelligence environment:
Important! When you restart CA Business Intelligence services, stop Tomcat 6 to avoid conflict with the default ports.
Follow these steps:
The ODBC to the CA MDM database is completed
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You have completed importing the BIAR file using the BIConfig utility.
Note: To improve the indexing performance, schedule reports and index the information spaces during the off peak hours. Index and schedule the reports in parallel so that the data is consistent in the reports and in the information space.
Follow these steps:
The information spaces are available to Explorer users.
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The Mobile Server is installed, you can now proceed to configure the Mobile Server.
Deploy the Mobile Server WAR files in the Tomcat application server to enable the Mobile Server features. Deploy the following WAR files to the Tomcat webapps location:
■ MobileBIService.war
■ MOBIServer.war
■ MobileOTA.war
Follow these steps:
The Mobile Server application is now deployed for the Tomcat application server.
Configure the server.properties file on the Mobile Server to allow mobile device users to directly import mobile server connections.
Follow these steps:
The server.properties file has been configured to allow users to directly import the mobile server connections.
Follow these steps:
The access rights have been set to run CA MDM reports.