Summary

This article describes various aspects of Platform management.

Platform Queues

A platform queue controls the number of concurrent document refreshes, by document type, InfoBurst will submit to a platform.

Queues

Versions 2024.2 or Later

• Open a Command Prompt (Run as Administrator) on the InfoBurst server
• Change directory to the InfoBurst installation folder (default = C:\Program Files\InfoSol\InfoBurst)
• Enter IBMaint
• Enter number for modify platform queue
• Follow on-screen instructions
• Re-start the InfoBurst service

Versions 2024.1 or Earlier

Display Platform

Display a platform to view existing queue lengths.

• Log into the Command Shell 
• Enter List Platforms 
• Enter Disp Platform <Platform_ID>

Adjust Queue Length

• Enter Modify Queue Platform="<Platform_ID>" Name="<Queue_Name>" Size="<Queue_Length>" 
• Display platform to confirm change
• Re-start the InfoBurst service

Recommendations

Please review the processing capabilities of your Business Intelligence reporting environment before altering a queue. Increasing a queue beyond the capacity of the processing environment could affect the performance of that environment.

Test increases incrementally to ensure the change does not adversely affect performance.

Update Platform

Update Platform is used to update the CMS name of a Platform. Update Platform may be used to address the following scenarios:

• CMS name changes on existing BusinessObjects server 
• CMS name changes as a result of the CMS being moved to a new BusinessObjects server of the same version
• BusinessObjects web services location changes (example: CMS to Tomcat)
• Original CMS is BusinessObjects development. Update platform to re-point all development documents to their production CMS equivalents.

Recommendations

• A repository backup should be performed prior to executing Update Platform
• Update Platform can only be performed by a user with Administrator role where the user has Platform Credentials configured for the target platform
• The original BusinessObjects document path/name must remain unchanged
  
• No documents from the target platform should be in use when Update Platform is executed. To ensure no scheduled documents are executing during Update Platform, do the following:
  • Disable schedule/event processing
    
  • Execute Update Platform
  • Enable schedule/event processing
• Update Platform should tested and validated in a non-production InfoBurst environment before executing Update Platform in production. Please consult InfoSol Help Desk via support ticket for staging recommendations.

Update Platform

• Open a command prompt (Run as administrator) on the InfoBurst Platform server
• Change directory to the application root folder (default = C:\Program Files\InfoSol\InfoBurst)
• Enter IBMaint
• Enter number for Update Platform
• Enter User
• Enter number of target platform
• Enter CMS Name
  • If target BusinessObjects web services environment uses SSL, the enter https://<CMS Name>
  • If target BusinessObjects web services environment uses non-default port 6405, then <CMS Name>:<Port>
  • For SSL and custom port enter https://<CMS Name>:<Port>
• At End of Maint, view ibmaint.log in application root folder for update results (default = C:\Program Files\InfoSol\InfoBurst)

Validate Platform

Validate Platform is used to verify document information on the current reporting Platform. When a BusinessObjects document ID changes, the reference in InfoBurst is broken. Validate Platform can locate the document by path/name and fix up broken references without having to rebuild Bursts or XDCs that reference the document.

Recommendations

• A repository backup should be performed prior to executing Validate Platform
• Validate Platform can only be performed by a user with Administrator role where the user has Platform Credentials configured for the target platform
• The original BusinessObjects document path/name must remain unchanged
  
• No documents from the target platform should be in use when Validate Platform is executed
  • Disable schedule/event processing
    
  • Execute Validate Platform
  • Enable schedule/event processing
    

Validate Platform

Validate all documents associated with a platform.

• Open a command prompt (Run as administrator) on the InfoBurst Platform server
• Change directory to the application root folder (default = C:\Program Files\InfoSol\InfoBurst)
• Enter IBMaint
• Enter number for Validate Platform
• Enter user
• Enter number of target platform
• View ibmaint.log in application root folder for validation results (default = C:\Program Files\InfoSol\InfoBurst)

Validate Folder

Validate all documents in a specific folder.

• Open a command prompt (Run as administrator) on the InfoBurst Platform server
• Change directory to the application root folder (default = C:\Program Files\InfoSol\InfoBurst)
• Enter IBMaint
• Enter number for Validate folder
• Enter user
• Enter number of target platform
• View ibmaint.log in application root folder for validation results (default = C:\Program Files\InfoSol\InfoBurst)

See Also

Platform Configurations