Migrations and Reporting
Well, it’s been a while since my last update – I went on holiday for two weeks, and we drove up to the north west of Australia.
Before I went away however, I sat the first exam for the Business Objects Certified Professional certification for Data Integrator – and managed to pass! Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like a training course will be released anytime soon to match the second BOCP-DI exam, and I’ve got lots of other stuff to look at, including doing the 2008 update to my BOCP-CR.
I’ve managed to volunteer to do a part on the next BOUG meeting, to talk on Migrating from 6.5 to XI. I’m going to talk (briefly) on best practices (like know XI), what to do in preparation and during the migration, and what not to do. The meeting is next week, 11th June.
One of things I’ll mention in the ‘what not to do’ section is the Content Search, which is packaged as part of the Productivity Pack with SP2. The Content Search indexes (runs) all the reports and universes. So, if you suddenly import 500 reports into the new XI system, and you don’t have any limits set on how many Deski reports can run at any one time (set in the CMC, under Deski Report Server), the service runs unchecked trying to index all the new reports and the system resources max out – definitely scary for your IT administrators.
Have you had any experiences like this with migrations?
July 9th, 2008 at 5:51 AM
Hi Sandor, the exam was quite tough, and this was actually my second go at the exam. I find it quite a bit more difficult than the BOE and CR exams. However, if you have done the classroom training, and have done a bit of DI work also, I would just recommend working through the entire manual again, just to make sure you’ve got the knowledge.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:35 AM
What I’d forgotten to ask is what the exam was like? I know about the non-disclosure blah, I’m just wondering whether it was doable with only classroom training and some lab experience. I did the training a while back and since I’m both CR and BOE certified I as thinking of trying for the DI exams, since it’s also a subject area I’m quite interested in. The second exam I have no clue what it is bases on, since, like you said, there’s no material for it.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:44 AM
I thought that there was a default limit on the number of Deski reports that can run at the same time.
Anyway, I’m currently doing an upgrade from R2 to 3.0 and you always run into things. Up until I cannot get SSO to work and I’m still trying to figure out the best way to ‘upgrade’ the PM applications and their metrics, etc.