Tuesday, November 29, 2011

What is the Central Management Console?

What is the Central Management Console?


The Central Management Console (CMC) allows you to create and manage BusinessObjects Enterprise(BOE) users and groups. It also enables you to publish organize, and set security levels for all of your BusinessObjects Enterprise content, the CMC enables you to manage servers and create Server groups.

Note: The CMC is different from the Central Configuration Manager (CCM) in that the CMC is web based. Because the CMC is web-based application, you can perform all these administrative tasks remotely.

You can perform administrative tasks in the CMC such as:

• Creating and managing users and groups, including their rights to folders, objects and applications.
• Publishing, scheduling and managing Webi Reports, Crystal, Deski, OLAP files as well as third-party documents and hyperlinks.
• Managing Universes and Universe connections.
• Managing Performances Management applications.
• Modifying BusinessObjects Enterprise applications.