With long-running reports, users often experience timeout issues in InfoView. The tips shown below should assist in alleviating your timeout problems.

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Issue/Introduction

Description:

Disclaimer: Please note that the these configuration changes should be performed in a Test environment prior to making the changes in a Production environment. These values are known to help alleviate generic timeout issues in Infoview. There are several other external factors (ex: firewalls) that might close connections and cause timeouts as well.

Solution:

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There are a number of configuration files in the \Business Objects\Tomcat55\webapps folder. There are sub-folders that contain configuration files with timeout settings.

On the CABI Server, navigate to the 'Business Objects\Tomcat55\webapps\AnalyticalReporting\WEB-INF' folder and open the web.xml file in text editor.

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Change the setting for the <session-timeout> node from the default of 20 minutes to a larger value (i.e. 60).

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Perform the same changes to the web.xml files in the following folders:

• ? Business Objects\Tomcat55\webapps\InfoViewApp\WEB-INF
• ? Business Objects\Tomcat55\webapps\InfoViewAppActions\WEB-INF
• ? Business Objects\Tomcat55\webappsPlatformServices\WEB-INF

Change # 2 - CMS Timeout Settings

Log into the Central Management Console (CMC) with an administrator account. Click on the Servers link.

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Double-click WebIntelligenceProcessingServer.

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Change the Idle Document Timeout setting to 3600.

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Change the Idle Connection Timeout setting to 60.

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Add the switch "-requesttimeout 3600000" to the end of the Command Line Parameters.

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Change # 3 - Re-start Services.

From the CABI server, launch the Central Configuration Manager(CCM).

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Stop and re-start the Apache Tomcat service and the Server Intelligence Agent (SIA)

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Change # 4 - Registry changes.

On the CABI server, launch the Registry Editor (Start/Run/regedit)

Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 12.0\CMS\Instances\cmsname.cms node and set the IdleSessionTimeout value to 14400000

Note, if you have Business Objects installed on a 64-bit server, the registry path is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6532Node\Business Objects\Suite 12.0\CMS\Instances\cmsname.cms

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Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BusinessObjects\Suite 12.0\default\WebIntelligence\Server\Admin\SwapTimeOut node and set the IdleSessionTimeout value to 3600000

Note, if you have Business Objects installed on a 64-bit server, the registry path is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6532Node\BusinessObjects\Suite 12.0\default\WebIntelligence\Server\Admin\SwapTimeOut

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Change # 5 - Universe Parameter changes.

From the CABI server, launch the Designer application and Import the ServiceDesk Universe from the Repository. From the main menu select File/Parameters.

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In the Definition tab, click the Edit button for the connection.

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Change the Connection Pool Mode setting to Disconnect after each transaction.

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In the Controls tab, change the Limit size of result set to setting to a value appropriate to your environment.

Change the Limit Execution time to 60 minutes - or higher if necessary. The default is 20 minutes.

Click OK and then save the Universe and export to the repository.

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Environment

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Component: SDBOXI