2029962 - Tomcat SLD DS fails with errors while sending data to SLD

• After configuring Apache Tomcat server for SAP BI 4.1 with SLD on a Linux environment, when trying to send tomcat data to SLD, you run into errors.
• The SLD also does not register the Tomcat SLD DS as synchronized
• Communication issues are ruled out as the servers can communicate / ping each other without issues
• SAP SLD Data supplier (SLD DS) configuration was done according to the SAP Note 1508421 - SAP SLD Data Supplier for Apache Tomcat
• The error as seen from the Tomcat SLDDS logs (eg: sldds-trace.2014-06-03.log) show messaging similar to  below log excepts :
  
  FINEST: Output of the SLDReg command is EMPTY
  Apr 17, 2014 2:03:00 PM
  com.sap.sup.admin.sldsupplier.sldreg.SLDTransporter execSLDReg
  FINER: Warning: Error stream of SLDReg command process is NOT empty.
  Apr 17, 2014 2:03:00 PM
  com.sap.sup.admin.sldsupplier.sldreg.SLDTransporter transport
  INFO: (SLDDS.TRP.FINISH) [SLDTransporter] transport to SLD finished.
  SUCCESS = false
  Apr 17, 2014 2:03:00 PM
  com.sap.sup.admin.sldsupplier.sldreg.SLDTransporter transport
  INFO: [Help] SLD transport finished without success. Check whether SLDREG is properly configured and Tomcat user has sufficient right to execute it.
  [Help] Execute SLD-DS application with DIAGNOSTIC or DEBUG level
  (VERBOSE_LEVEL=4 or VERBOSE_LEVEL=5) and check the SLDDS trace file(e.g. sldds-trace.log file)
  [Help] Please see SLD-DS guide (SAP Note 1482727 or 1508421) for more details.
  
• With increased verbose level, the errors seen from the tomcat SLDDS logs under  <tomcat_install>/logs folder show following information -
  
  <Month> <Day>, <Year> HH:MM:SS PM com.sap.sup.admin.sldsupplier.sldreg.SLDTransporter execSLDReg
  FINEST: /usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/sldreg: error while loading shared libraries: xml71d.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

• SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.0 and above
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1 
• Apache Tomcat 7.0 with SAP SLD Data Supplier
• Unix & Linux OS

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