Monday, July 28, 2014

Is your Business Objects Server running at CPU 99% load?


Today the Business Object server was running like a dog, checking the performance showed that the server was eating up 99% CPU at all times.  The problem turned out to be related to the Index Service running continually rather than on a scheduled basis.

Steps to address the where:

1. Login to CMC

2. Click on Application, Right click Platform Search Application>Properties

3. In Crawling frequency, select #Scheduled crawling#

4. In Level of indexing, select #Platform and Document Metadata#. (Optional, platform search application will index faster)

5. In Content Types, uncheck #Universe#. (Optional, platform search application will index faster)

6. In Error Recovery, check #Rebuild index#

7. Save and Close

8. Go to Folder>Platform Search Scheduling, schedule the Platform Search Scheduling object to be done when times when there is a lower usage of the resources