list applications can be controlled from CMC?

The applications you can manage from the CMC are:
The CMC itself
Crystal Reports Explorer
Designer
Desktop Intelligence
Discussions
InfoView
Web Intelligence

what is CMC URL?

For JSP version,

http://Webserver:8080/businessobjects/enterprise115/adminlaunch/launchpad.html

For ASP version,

http://Webserver/businessobjects/Enterprise115/WebTools/adminlaunch/default.aspx


By default, the Administrator account is not assigned a password

what are the different Objects in BO Xi R2?

In BusinessObjects XI R2, objects can include

Reports,
Web Intelligence documents,
Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint),
Adobe Acrobat PDFs,
text files,
hyperlinks,
folders

what is CMC tool ?

Central Management Console (CMC)is a web based tool in Business Objects XI R2
suite which allows administrator to control the system. controlling users
and their privileges

List supporting OS, DBs,Application Servers for BO XI R2 Suite server?

Windows Server 2000
Windows Server 2003

AIX, Sun Solaris, RHEL , RHAS, SUSE Linux, HP-UX


BO XI R2 Server installation means installing some
web applications on one of the application servers.
By default it comes with Tomcat. we can also use
other Application servers

Using BO XI framework we can build custom web application. we can
use either J2EE or .NET Path.

if you are interested custom development in .NET then choose IIS server
if you are going with J2EE, Go with Tomcat, weblogic, websphere, Oracle Application server..etc


BO XI R2 Server needs DB connection to store metadata. we called its Repository
in informatica and BO world. For repository we can use

Microsoft SQL
Server 2000 SP3,
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 SP4,
Oracle9.2,
Oracle10.1,
IBM DB2,
Sybase ASE,
Sybase AS IQ,
NCR Teradata

BO XI comes with MYSQL by default. we can use that one too

list some standalone installable tools in BO XI R2?

BusinessObjects Designer

Desktop Intelligence

Publishing Wizard

Business Views Manager:

Import Wizard

Report Conversion Tool ( to convert DeskI reports to WebI report)


these tools can be installed on

Windows XP

Windows Server 2003

List some tools in BO XI Suite?

Designer
Universe Builder
BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence . Its a feature of Business Objects XI R2. Earlier it was called Business Objects
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Enterprise Performance Management - used to create scoreboard, dash board, metrics..etc
Publishing Wizard
InfoView - BI Portal - to view and manage BI Objects

Central Management Console - managing users, deploying BI objects,Server administration,password management