BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Configuring NAT when thick client is separated from the CMS

You can publish reports or analytic objects to BusinessObjects Enterprise by saving these objects to BusinessObjects Enterprise from within Crystal Reports or OLAP Intelligence, or by using the Import or Publishing Wizards. However, if there is a firewall between the computer running one of these thick clients and the Central Management Server (CMS), this operation fails.

Configuring your BusinessObjects Enterprise system to support this configuration when the firewall uses Network Address Translation (NAT) is very similar to configuring your system to support a NAT firewall between the application tier and the Central Management Server.

For full instructions, follow the detailed steps in Configuring NAT when application tier is separated from the CMS but:

• Configure only the Central Management Server and the Input File Repository Server.
• Establish inbound firewall rules for communication between the Crystal Reports or OLAP Intelligence machine and the CMS and Input File Repository Server. You do not need to establish an outbound firewall rule.

Related topics:    

• "Changing the default server port numbers" on page 139
• Configuring for Network Address Translation