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Business Intelligence 4.x APS (Adaptive Processing Server) Service Distribution

Added by Guest, last edited by Grant Eaton on Apr 03, 2013

Purpose
To determine w hen and w hy to change the default services configured in the Adaptive Processing Server.

Overview
By default w hen installing Business Intelligence 4.x (aka BI 4.x) the Adaptive Processing Server w ill contain tw enty-one services,
Client Auditing Proxy Service
Custom Data Access Service
Data Federation Service
DSL Bridge Service
Excel Data Access Service
Visualization Service
Adaptive Connectivity Service
Lifecycle Management Clearcase Service
Lifecycle Management Service
Multi Dimensional Analysis Service
Monitoring Service
Web Intelligence Monitoring Service
Platform Search Service
BEx Web Application Service
Publishing Post Processing Service
Publishing Service, Rebean Service
Document Recovery Service
Security Token Service
Translation Service
Visual Difference Service
There are serveral methodologies used w hen creating multiple Adaptive Processing Servers. In addition, each subservice is configured to allocate betw een 1-2GB per service. This means that the out-ofthe-box AdaptiveProcessingService w ill require ~25GB by itself.
Screenshot of default AdaptiveProcessingServer:

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Recommendations
SAP support recommends splitting the APS service into multiple smaller APS services divided by functional area. This w ill significantly reduce overhead and resource consumption w hile maximizing the
administration flexibility by offering the ability to stop and disable unused APS services for specific functions that are not in use.
*Splitting out the follow ing APS's are im perative in all production deploym ents: *DSL Bridge and *Platform Serach

Splitting the services by functional area

DSL Bridge Services
Recommended Memory 8 Gig
SIA1.DSLBridgeAPS
DSL Bridge Service
Wed Intelligence Monitoring Service
Security Token Service

Publishing Services
Recommended Memory 4 Gig
SIA1.PublishingAPS
Publishing Post Processing Service
Publishing Service

Web Intelligence Services

Recommended Memory 4 Gig
SIA1.WebIntelligenceAPS
Rebean Service
Web Intelligence Monitoring Service
Document Recovery Service
Custom Data Access Service
Excel Data Access Service

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Charting Services
Recommended Memory 2 Gig
SIA1.ChartingAPS
Visualization Service

Analysis Services
Recommended Memory 8 Gig
SIA1.AnalysisAPS
Multi Dimensional Analysis Service
BEX Web Application Service

Data Federator Services

Recommended Memory 3 Gig
SIA1.DataFederatorAPS
Data Federation Service

Monitoring Services
Recommended Memory 1 Gig
SIA1.M onitoringAPS
Monitoring Service

Client Auditing Proxy Services

Recommended Memory 512 Meg
SIA1.ClientAuditingProxyAPS
Client Auditing Proxy Service

Adaptive Connectivity Services

Recommended Memory 1 Gig
SIA1.AdaptiveConnectivityAPS
Adaptive Connectivity Service

Miscellaneous Services
Recommended Memory 1 Gig
SIA1.M iscellaneousAPS
Security Token Service
Translation Service
Insight to Action Service

Platform Search Services

Recommended Memory 3 Gig
SIA1.PlatformSearchAPS
Platform Search Service

Lifecycle Management Services

Recommended Memory 2 Gig
SIA1.LifecycleM anagementAPS
Lifecycle Management Service
Lifecycle Management Clearcase Service

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Visual Difference Service

Services Description
Services are listed below in the follow ing format
Service Nam e
Service Catagory: Description
Utilized by Products or Application
DSL Bridge Service
Web Intelligence Services: Dual Semantic Layer (DSL) session support. Optimizes BICS connectivity for SAP BW. Handles UNX SQL/LOV generation for relational sources.
Web Intelligence, BO Explorer
Web Intelligence Monitoring Service
Web Intelligence Services: Monitors Web Intelligence Servers
Web Intelligence
Security Token Service
Core Services: SAP Single Sign-On support. Offers Single Sign On (SSO) capability to connect to SAP BW data sources.
All
Publishing Post Processing Service
Core Services: Performs actions on reports after they have completed, such as sending a report to a specific output location
Publications of Web Intelligence or Crystal Reports
Publishing Service
Core Services: Coordinates w ith the Publishing Post Processing Service and Destination Job Service to publish reports to a given output location, such as the file system, FTP, email, or a users inbox
Publications of Web Intelligence or Crystal reports
Rebean Service
Web Intelligence Services: SDK used by Web Intelligence and Explorer
Web Intelligence, Explorer
Web Intelligence Monitoring Service
Web Intelligence Services: Monitors Web Intelligence Servers
Web Intelligence
Docum ent Recovery Service
Web Intelligence Services: Web Intelligence document auto-save and recovery
Web Intelligence
Custom Data Access Service
Connectivity Services: Provides dynamic connections to data sources that do not require a Connection Server. This service allow s accessing and refreshing reports created using some personal data
provider like CSV files
Web Intelligence, Dashboards (Xcelsius)
Excel Data Access Service
Web Intelligence Services: Supports Excel files uploaded to SAP BusinessObjects BI platform as data sources
Web Intelligence
Visualization Service
Web Intelligence Services: Common Visualization Object Model Service, used by Web Intelligence for charts rendering in WebI reports. The CVOM is dedicated to Web Intelligence reporting. It is w hat creates
the charts displayed in a Web Intelligence document
Web Intelligence, Crystal for Enterprise, Analysis for OLAP
Related Content
Multi-Dim ensional Analysis Service
Analysis Services: Provides access to multi-dimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) data; converts the raw data into XML, w hich can be rendered into Excel, PDF, or Analysis (formerly Voyager)
crosstabs and charts
Analysis for OLAP, Creation of OLAP connections
BEx Web Application Service
Analysis Services: Provides integration of SAP Business Warehouse (BW) Business Explorer (BEx) w eb applications w ith BI launchpad

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BEx
Data Federation Service
Data Federation Services: Enables multi-source universes by distributing queries across disparate data sources federates data through a single data foundation
Web Intelligence, Dashboards (Xcelsius), Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Explorer
Monitoring Service
Core Services: Provides monitoring functions
All
Client Auditing Proxy Service
Core Services: Collects auditing events sent from clients and forw ards them to the CMS server
Client tools as Interactive Analysis Desktop
Adaptive Connectivity Service
Connectivity Services: Provides connectivity services (replaces Connection Server)
Web Intelligence, Dashboards (Xcelsius), Crystal Reports, Explorer
Security Token Service
Core Services: SAP Single Sign-On support. Offers Single Sign On (SSO) capability to connect to SAP BW data sources
All
Translation Service
Core Services: Translates InfoObjects w ith input from the Translation Manager client.
All
Insight to Action Service
Core Services: Enables actions to be invoked and provides support for Report to Report Interface (RRI)
Crystal Reports, Dashboards (Xcelsius)
Platform Search Service
Core Services: Provides searching functionality for the platform.
Search
Lifecycle Managem ent Service
LifecycleManagement Services: Lifecycle Management Core service
LCM
Lifecycle Managem ent ClearCase Service
LifecycleManagement Services: LCM supports either SubVersion or ClearCase to support versioning of objects. This service is to manage the ClearCase support
LCM
Visual Difference Service
LifecycleManagement Services: Determines w hether documents are visually identical for doc promotion and Lifecycle Management. Currently users can view the difference betw een 2 LCMBIAR files or
LCM Jobs
LCM

Related Documents
YouTube Video: Splitting BI 4.0 Adaptive Processing Servers
http://youtu.be/2Uyi0V7Rdw A

Best Practices for SAPBO BI 4.0 Adaptive Processing Servers

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31711

SAP BI 4.0 Ecosystem how-to videos

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-34251

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