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What is the real puspose of VAS and VMS ?

Former Member
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Hello Gurus,

Can someone explain why we need VAS and VMS? I do not see any need for them .. unless there is a need for reporting on mobile activity.

Let me know your comments.

Thanks.

Srikar

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Former Member
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Actually yes VAS and VMS have been removed from 3.5 MobileServer and a worthy replacement is made in form of MobileBIService.war.

The intention was end users wont know the difference whethers they are using VAS/VMS or MobileBIService.war.

So, from 3.5 onwards IPAD and BB both depend on MobileBIService.war which can be deployed in any app server, tomcat preferably.

Regards,

Shweta

Former Member
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Hi Shweta,

The only issue comes, when we need to troubleshoot, it was much easier with VAS and VMS log files.

However, now it becomes a little tedious to check out the workflow.

However BI 4.0 still have VAS and VMS to run and configure. Good for simulations!!

Regards,

Atul

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Hey Atul,

If you want to see log files for servers which do not have VAS and VMS then you can see them at

.businessobjects folder. This folder usually exists unders Users\<username> or Users\<default>

In this folder there should be a folders logs, there the logs starting with name MobileService or MobiService

will be helpful in understanding the workflow.

Regards,

Shweta.

Former Member
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Hi Shweta,

thanks for the same.

regards,

Atul

Former Member
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VAS is used for Authentication of Users .

VMS handles rest of the fuctions like displaying folders, open documents , refresh etc.

Shweta

Former Member
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Hi,

As shweta said, they are the heart and brains of mobile services.

Without them the mobile services wont know whom to contact for authentiation or for report analysis.

However, to surprize VAS and VMS are not preset in BO XI 3.1 SP5

Regards,

Atul

Former Member
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Hi,

You need to separately deploy the mobile war file on your BOE server also you need to install BO mobile on the separate server.

Thanks,

aKs