Connecting to another open bi instance

This blog post shall give you all necessary information on how to connect open bi to another open bi instance. This makes sense e.g. in the following scenarions:

• Setting up a system landscape with development and production systems
• Setting up distributed system landscapes with load balancing, where multiple open bi instances provide the same services and therefore have to share the same data.
• Publish data and reports of a private instance of open bi onto a publicly available portal, e.g. for your suppliers.

Creating the Connection

You can create the connection easily via the open bi Web Configurator. First, specify the open bi instance you want to connect to as Hostname, and also enter username and password:

After successful logon, navigate to Connection Templates and choose OPENBIP:

After double clicking on OPENBIP, you see the already existing connections. Click + to create a new one:

First, you should provide a Name and Description for the new connection:

Then you should specify the HOSTNAME and PORT for the new connection:

For details, see the detailed parameter documentation below.

Connection Parameters