Hello SCN,
In this blog, I will go through the steps necessary to setup and install SAP BI 4.1 SP01 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x system.
*Note: Fedora, CentOS or other distributions which are not explicity RHEL are not supported.
Red Hat Software Downloads | |
SAP BI Software Downloads | |
SAP BI 4.1 Product Documentation | |
SAP BI 4.1 Supported Platforms (PAM) |
For a complete list of requirements and a Final Checklist please reference: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 Support Package 1 Installation Guide for Unix... |
Before installing on Red Hat Linux, you must ensure all the required libraries are installed. Ensure you have root access, then use the Yum software installation tool to run the following commands:
yum install compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69.el6.i686
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686
yum install compat-libstdc++-33-3.x86_x64
yum install glibc.i686
yum install libstdc++.i686
yum install libX11-1.3-2.el6.i686
*Note: Failure to apply these prerequisite libraries can cause instability in the BI4.1 environment. Please reference these KBA articles to learn more about the consquences: |
1692724 - Cannot open Shared object file: No such file or directory 1692679 - Bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory 1875824 - LDAP Plugin missing from CMC on Red Hat Operating systems |
Difficulties installing via YUM? See: 1972307 - Error: Protected multilib versions when installing BI4 prerequisite libraries |
Checking to see if these libraries are installed is quick and simple using the following commands:
cat /etc/redhat-release
ulimit
locale
rpm -qa compat-libstdc++*
rpm -qa glibc
rpm -qa libstdc++
rpm -qa libX11
The output should be similar to this:
To launch setup, navigate to the media for BI4.1 SP01 and execute ./setup.sh
When troubleshooting BI 4.1 installation issues on linux it is essential to download Doug's survey.sh script. This will examine several different dimensions of your Redhat system and save the analysis to an HTML file. This will also include the installation logfiles for examination. This makes identifying a problem in a linux environment very easy.
The survey script can be found attached to this KBA:
1681036 - Using the survey script to assist support
During setip, installer will create a subfolder in /tmp to contain the setupengine.log until the installation is completed. Once setup has completed, these logs will be moved to the ./InstallData directory of your installation target folder (example: /home/boeuser/BI41/InstallData/ ).
Reviewing the setupengine.log post-instal is essential to understand what may have occured. The survey script above makes this easy by collecting the logfile for you.
Most installation issues are due to missing prerequisites wether these are the configuration steps listed above, or missing libraries. In some cases its found that the library installed may be for the incorrect architechure (i686 vs. x86_x64).
Other issues can be caused by the installer finding 3rd party products and libraries via the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LIBPATH. Removing these extra entries from these environment variables may be necessary.
Any error messages that you will encounter during the installer or identify in the setupengine.log may already documented by SAP Product Support.
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