Description

This Chef cookbook installs SAP Business One.
It contains the following recipes:
* b1::server
Recipe installs the SAP Business One server (SBO-Common, Server Tools, etc.).
* b1::client
Recipe installs the SAP Business One client.
* b1::register_to_sld
Register an existing Business One server to an existing SLD.

SAP Business One Partners can find tutorials on how to use these cookbooks and setup Business One test environments with Chef on the SAP PartnerEdge.

Limitations

The SAP Business One Cookbooks do not follow the Business One installation process as described in the Business One Admin Guide.
It is recommended to use these Chef Cookbooks to only create SAP Business One Test and Demo environments.
The SAP Business One Support Organization will not support Productive environment created with these Chef Cookbooks.

• This cookbook supports SAP Business One from version 9.2 Patch 2.
• The tool registering to the SLD only support username/password SQL connection

Requirements

For the Microsoft Windows platform only.
Microsoft SQL server must be installed first.

Download and Installation

Download

This Cookbook is meant to be used in conjonction with a Chef server.
You can use Knife or Berkshelf for example to add this Cookbook to a Chef Repository.

For example, you can add this line to the Berksfile of your wrapper cookbook:

source 'https://supermarket.chef.io'
metadata
cookbook 'b1', git: 'https://github.com/SAP/business-one-chef-cookbook.git'

Usage

This will install the B1 Server components (including the B1 Server, SLD, License Server, etc.) and the B1 Client. You need to define the archive location, the version and the passwords.

recipe[b1::server],recipe[b1::client]

Attributes:

{
    "b1": {
        "archiverepo": "http://myfileserver/b1-software/ms-sql",
        "archive": "B192_PL05.zip",
        "sqlservertype": "8",
        "setupissdbservertype": "8",
        "systempassword": "MyPassword1",
        "siteuserpassword": "MyPassword1"
    },
    "b1server": {
        "targetdbversion": "920150",
        "targetpatch": "5"
    },
    "b1client": {
        "dbversion": "920150",
        "patch": "5"
    }
}

Usage - with pre-existing SLD

This will install the B1 Server components and the B1 Client and register the MS-SQL instance to a separate SLD. You need to define the archive location, the version and the passwords.

recipe[b1::server],recipe[b1::client],recipe[b1::register_to_sld]

Attributes:

{
    "b1": {
        "archiverepo": "http://myfileserver/b1-software/ms-sql",
        "archive": "B192_PL05.zip",
        "sqlservertype": "8",
        "setupissdbservertype": "8",
        "systempassword": "MyPassword1",
        "siteuserpassword": "MyPassword1"
    },
    "b1server": {
        "targetdbversion": "920150",
        "targetpatch": "5"
    },
    "b1client": {
        "dbversion": "920150",
        "patch": "5"
    },
    "register_to_sld": {
        "sldserver": "mysld.mydomain",
        "sldusername": "B1SiteUser",
        "sldpassword": "MyPassword1",
        "instancename": "myinstance.mydomain",
        "sqlversion": "SQL2014",
        "dbusername": "sa",
        "dbpassword": "MyPassword1"
        }
}

Configuration

List of cookbook attributes

Known Issues

The Powershell script checking the version in the SINF table in SBO-Common does not report an error if it fails to connect to the SQL server.

How to obtain support

This project allows and expects users to post questions or bug reports in the [GitHub bug tracking system](../../issues).

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, please fork this project and post pull requests.

License

Copyright (c) 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.
This file is licensed under the Apache Software License, v. 2 except as noted otherwise in the [LICENSE](LICENSE.txt) file.