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The CMS Provides a Directory of Registered Servers

The CMS provides a directory of the BusinessObjects Enterprise servers that have registered with it. Other BusinessObjects Enterprise components such as BusinessObjects Enterprise servers, Business Objects rich clients, and the BusinessObjects Enterprise SDK hosted in the web application server can contact the CMS and request a reference to a particular server. A server's reference contains the server's Request Port number and the host name (or IP address) of the server's host computer.

BusinessObjects Enterprise components might reside on a different subnet than the server they are using. The host name (or IP address) contained in the server reference must be routable from the component's computer.

Note: The reference to a BusinessObjects Enterprise server contains the server computer's host name by default. (If a computer has more than one hostname, the primary hostname is chose.) You can configure a server so that its reference contains the IP address instead.