SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Software Inventory Tool User's Guide

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Software Inventory Tool User's Guide

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Introduction

The BusinessObjects Enterprise Software Inventory Tool is a Java-based maintenance tool available to administrators of BusinessObjects Enterprise. The tool creates and maintains an inventory of all changes made to Business Objects software via Business Objects installers and allows users to view these changes.

What does the BusinessObjects Software

Inventory Tool do?

The Business Objects Software Inventory Tool collects and displays information on your BusinessObjects installations.

The tool monitors BusinessObjects Enterprise after it is installed and logs updates such as fixes and service packs. The logged information is presented chronologically and the inventory list can then be searched for specific files, features, and patches.

Installation

The BusinessObjects Software Inventory Tool is automatically included with your BusinessObjects XI Enterprise installation. It is available for all Windows platforms supported by BusinessObjects XI.

How does the BusinessObjects Software

Inventory Tool work?

When a Business Objects installation program runs, information on what is being installed is added to the manifest.xml file, including the following information:

• Records of all Business Objects installations including the original product, service packs, and fixes.

• Records of the files associated with each Business Objects installation such as .war and .dll files.

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To launch the Software Inventory Tool

• Click Start > Programs > BusinessObjects XI 3.1 > BusinessObjects Enterprise > Software Inventory Tool

The Software Inventory Tool interface appears.

Using the BusinessObjects Software

Inventory Tool

The BusinessObjects Software Inventory Tool displays three separate tabs: • Feature

• System View • Search

The Feature tab

The feature tab displays the Business Objects products that are or were installed on your system at the currently selected point the the timeline at the top of the display. Under each product heading are the features of that product. Highlighting any of the features listed for a product will display a list of the files that are associated with that feature, including a description of the file and its version number.

The Adapt tab

The Adapt tab allows you to view the adapt numbers associated with a Business Objects product or patch. Adapt is a system used internally by BusinessObjects to track feature development and technical issues. If you are looking for specific information on a requested feature or fix, this can help you locate it.

Selecting a point on the timeline at the top of the screen, or selecting an event from the drop-down below the timeline will display all the products

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installed at the selected time. Listed below the products will be the Adapt numbers associated with the features and fixes for that product. Selecting one of the Adapt numbers will display the files associated with that Adapt.

The Search tab

The Search pane of the BusinessObjects Software Inventory Tool allows you to refine the information displayed in System View. It is divided into three parts:

• "The search field": Use this field to enter search parameters.

• "Search History": Lists all previously-entered search parameters for this session. This information is lost when you close the tool window. • "Search results": Shows all files that match the current search parameters,

and their locations.

The Software Inventory log file

The tool creates a log file for recording each time the tool is launched. The log.txt file is saved in the default installation folder together with the inventory.xmlfile: C:\Program Files\Business

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Location Information Resource

http://www.sap.com

SAP BusinessObjects product information

Selecthttp://help.sap.com> SAP BusinessObjects. You can access the most up-to-date documentation cover-ing all SAP BusinessObjects products and their deployment at the SAP Help Portal. You can download PDF versions or installable HTML libraries.

Certain guides are stored on the SAP Service Marketplace and are not available from the SAP Help Portal. These guides are listed on the Help Portal accompanied by a link to the SAP Service Marketplace. Customers with a mainte-nance agreement have an authorized user ID to access this site. To obtain an ID, contact your customer support representative.

SAP Help Portal

http://service.sap.com/bosap-support> Documentation • Installation guides:https://service.sap.com/bosap-inst

guides

• Release notes:http://service.sap.com/releasenotes

The SAP Service Marketplace stores certain installation guides, upgrade and migration guides, deployment guides, release notes and Supported Platforms documents. Cus-tomers with a maintenance agreement have an authorized user ID to access this site. Contact your customer support representative to obtain an ID. If you are redirected to the SAP Service Marketplace from the SAP Help Portal, use the menu in the navigation pane on the left to locate the category containing the documentation you want to access. SAP Service Marketplace

https://boc.sdn.sap.com/

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects-sdklibrary

Developer resources

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Location Information Resource

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/businessobjects-articles

These articles were formerly known as technical papers. SAP BusinessObjects articles

on the SAP Community Net-work

https://service.sap.com/notes

These notes were formerly known as Knowledge Base ar-ticles.

Notes

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/forums

Forums on the SAP Communi-ty Network

http://www.sap.com/services/education

From traditional classroom learning to targeted e-learning seminars, we can offer a training package to suit your learning needs and preferred learning style.

Training

http://service.sap.com/bosap-support

The SAP Support Portal contains information about Cus-tomer Support programs and services. It also has links to a wide range of technical information and downloads. Customers with a maintenance agreement have an autho-rized user ID to access this site. To obtain an ID, contact your customer support representative.

Online customer support

http://www.sap.com/services/bysubject/businessobjectscon sulting

Consultants can accompany you from the initial analysis stage to the delivery of your deployment project. Expertise is available in topics such as relational and multidimensional databases, connectivity, database design tools, and cus tomized embedding technology.

Consulting

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Index

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inventory.xml 6

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Software Inventory Tool Adapt tab 7

functionality 6 installation files 6 introduction 6

Software Inventory Tool (continued) inventory.xml 6, 8 log.txt 6, 8 search 8 SoftwareInventory.bat 6 SoftwareInventory.jar 6 user interface 7 viewing format ADAPT number 7 file 7 install/patch name 7

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