KB 216 (BO): Business Objects Installation

Description

To complete the installation of the PowerConnect Business Objects agent complete the following steps:

• Place the sap_powerconnect_java.war file in the Business Objects tomcat webapps directory: <BOBJ Installation Directory>\tomcat\webapps
  
  

  Open

  

• PowerConnect will now be deployed

• Then use a web browser to access the following URL: http://<BOBJ_HOST>:<port>/sap_powerconnect_java/ui/index.html

• Once connected, configure the HEC endpoint with the following details

  • HEC Key

  • Splunk HEC URL, which should be: http://<ip address or qualified domain>:8088

  • Splunk Index

  • Splunk Source, which should be set to the BO cluster name

• Test to confirm that the connection is successful. If it is not successful work with the Splunk administrator to ensure the endpoint was properly set up.
  
  

  Open

  

• Then activate the desired data extraction parameters.

• Input the provided license key.

• Save the configuration. The data should be available in Splunk within the next several minutes.

Product version