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Preparations for CXO Installation (Version 20) for SAP BW

This document describes the prerequisites and preparations for installing and configuring the CXO as a dashboard on SAP BW. It does not describe the installation and configuration itself.

The tables should be used as a check-list:  either the indicated piece of information must be provided (enter it in the ‘Information’ column) or the specified action should be carried out / component should be installed (put a checkmark in the ‘Done’ column).

CXO Application Server

Provide the following information for the CXO application server. We also support virtual servers.

Requirement / Action

Information

Done

Windows 2012 / 2014 / 2016 / 2019

 

 

Amount of RAM (min. 8Gb, preferably 16Gb)

 

 

Check Disk Space available (> 25Gb)

 

 

Name (full DNS)

 

 

IP

 

 

Account to log on

 

 

Domain (if applicable)

 

 

Password1

 

 

SQL Server Management Studio installed (optional)2

 

 

Microsoft Components

The following Microsoft Components should be available on the server

Requirement / Action

Information

Done

IIS 7 / IIS 8 / IIS 10

 

 

.NET Framework 4.8 (CXO installer will install it if it is not there yet, so there is no need to pre-install it)

 

 

Service Account

For running the CXO services, we need a service account.  This service account can be a domain account or a local machine account. The password of the account should never expire.

Requirement / Action

Information

Done

Name

 

 

Password

 

 

Domain (if applicable)

 

 

SQL Server

Meta-data of a CXO application is stored in a SQL Server database (repository). A SQL Server should be available, or SQL Server should be installed on the CXO Application Server.

Requirement / Action

Information

Done

Edition (Enterprise/ Standard / Express3)

 

 

Version ( 2012 / 2014 / 2016 / 2017 / 2019)
(SQL server 2012 or newer is recommended)

 

 

Windows Server Name (full DSN)

 

 

IP

 

 

Instance name (or specific port)4

 

 

SQL Account (role = dbcreator)5

 

 

Domain (or local) account to log-on to the server (optional: see3)

 

 

Password

 

 

BW

Requirement / Action

Information

Done

Sap GUI for Windows installed6 (recommended7)

 

 

Name BW Server

 

 

IP Address BW Server

 

 

Instance (port)8

 

 

Technical cube name9

 

 

SAP BW user (Dialogue user)10

 

 

Password

 

 

Client ID

 

 

System ID

 

 

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