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Enabling the Siebel Reports Server with the Web Client

This section describes how to set up the various parameters for enabling Siebel Reports Server for the Web client.

To set the parameters at the component level

  1. From the application-level menu, select View > Site Map > Server Administration screen >Server Components.
  2. Select the component for which you need to enable Reports Server parameters.
  3. Click the Component Parameters tab.
  4. Set parameter values in the Current value column for the following parameters and Save.

    5. NOTE:  The Siebel Server has to be restarted for these parameters to take effect.

    Actuate Server Enable Flag = TRUE

    Actuate Server Report Server Host = name of the Reports Server machine followed by the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) server port number (example: server1:8000).

    Actuate Server Report Cast Host = Name of the Actuate HTTP service followed by domain name and the Actuate HTTP service port number (example: server1.siebel.com:8700).

    Actuate Report Cast Domain = Domain name for the Active Portal machine (example: siebel.com).

    Actuate Server Network Protocol Name = name of protocol to use for viewing reports (example: HTTP or HTTPS).

    Actuate Server Connect String = siebel.TCPIP.none.NONE://GatewayServerName:PortNumber/EnterpriseServerName/XXXOBJMGR_language/SiebelServerName

    Where:

    siebel.TCPIP = the networking protocol

    none (first instance) = the encryption type chosen

    NONE (second instance) = the data compression method chosen

    GatewayServerName = the name of your Siebel Gateway Server

    PortNumber = the listening port number (default is 2320)

    EnterpriseServerName = the name of your Siebel Enterprise Server

    XXXOBJMGR_language = type of Object Manager for the Siebel eBusiness application you are installing, for example:

    SCCOBJMGR_enu for U.S. English Siebel Call Center Object Manager

    SSEOBJMGR_enu for U.S. English Siebel Sales Object Manager

    SiebelServerName = the name of your Siebel Server

    When deploying the Reports Server with a load-balanced Siebel Server, the Reports Server should be installed separately on a machine that does not have a Siebel Server installed.

    However, if the Siebel Server is deployed with Resonate load-balancing, the Siebel Server name parameter should be excluded from the connect string. Reports will not generate if the Siebel Server name is included in the Actuate Server Connect String parameter.

    Actuate Server Rox Directory = /Siebel Reports/

    Actuate Server Poll Wait Limit = time limit (in seconds) after which polling stops for interactively run reports.

    The Actuate Server Poll Wait Limit parameter defines a duration in seconds, at the component level, after which application control is returned to the user, whether or not report generation has completed. This provision avoids the client having to wait for an indefinite time period after submitting long-running reports.

    NOTE:  The administrator should advise end users that they can override the component level setting of Actuate Server Poll Wait limit Parameter. This is done by choosing View > User Preferences > Behavior to set the Run Report Time Limit parameter from the application-level menu.

    Actuate Request Status Poll Interval = The component parameter has a default value of 10,0,0,10

    Where:

    The first value, 10, is the initial sleep time before polling, after the report request is submitted. This value is in seconds.

    The second value, 0, is the short sleep interval. This is the sleep time used between polls, the second time onwards.

    The third value, 0, is the short sleep interval count. This indicates how many times the short sleep interval should be used.

    The fourth value, 10, is the default sleep interval, in seconds. The polling frequency gets set to this value until the report completes, if the report is not completed within the initial/short poll duration.

See Siebel Server Administration Guide for more information on how to modify Application Object Manager parameters.

The parameters described in the following procedure must be set in the eapps.cfg file, which can be found under the /bin subdirectory of SWEAPP_ROOT, for the Siebel Reports sign-on to work.

To set the parameters in the eapps.cfg file

  1. Navigate to the file eapps.cfg under, for example, SWEAPP_ROOT/bin.
  2. Using a text editor, open eapps.cfg and locate the [Defaults] section.
  3. Set the following parameter values as shown below:

    4. EnableFQDN = TRUE

    EnableFQDN is the setting that enables the processing of requests to Web sites even if the user does not provide the fully qualified domain name.

    FQDN = machine name followed by domain name

    Where:

    FQDN stands for Fully Qualified Domain Name. An example of a fully qualified domain name would be ebiz.siebel.com.

    EnableFQDN and FQDN parameters are used in a Single Sign-On environment, in which cookies with FQDN must be passed to different servers in the same domain. The Reports Server uses Single Sign-On to allow users to view reports without having to manually log in.


 Siebel Reports Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 July 2003