We decided to update the existing BI 4.0 Server to 4.1 but it isn't as easy as described.
After the first step, updating the BI 4.0 SP07 server to 4.1 SP02, I got this issue if I try to open the CMC.
Servlet.service() for servlet [equinoxbridgeservlet] in context with path [/BOE] threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.util.Properties.entrySet() of an object loaded from local variable 'globalProperties'
at com.businessobjects.servletbridge.customconfig.Config.<init>(Config.java:37)
at com.businessobjects.servletbridge.customconfig.ConfigReader.getConfig(ConfigReader.java:370)
at com.businessobjects.pinger.TimeoutManagerFilter.getSessionState(TimeoutManagerFilter.java:203)
at com.businessobjects.pinger.TimeoutManagerFilter.doFilter(TimeoutManagerFilter.java:82)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1002)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:743)
Any ideas?