How to Kill Sessions in Business Objects XI (R2 + R3)

There are some areas of functionality that the Business Objects admin tools really lack, one is the ability to view who is currently using the system and then kill a particular session.  These tools can be useful if you’re diagnosing problems and whilst BO don’t provide them the SDK does allow for them to be created and thankfully Johnny Ye has created the Business Objects XI Session Removal Tool, it’s fairly rudimentary in design terms but it does the job perfectly and I’m sure if you know Java and HTML you could customise it easily.

Out of the box it should work with XI R3 but I’ve not tried it since I’m currently running XI R2, in order to get it running on Release 2 you’ll need to modify Johnny’s instructions as follows (instructions taken from this thread on BOB)…

1. In the new_utilities.jsp file change the
line: result += "Delta " +conn.getDelta()+"<br>";
to: result += "Delta " + "na"/*(conn.getDelta()*/+"<br>";

2. Copy the library files from:
~\Tomcat\webapps\businessobjects\enterprise115\adminlaunch\WEB-INF\lib
to:
~\Tomcat\webapps\KillSession\WEB-INF\lib

NOTE: ~ = “C:\Program Files\Business Objects”

3. Restart Apache/Tomcat (I’m using IIS so this didn’t really impact my users).