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Title: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: Tsunami on 23 Mar 2012 11:55:15 AM
IE 8 just spins forever.  I think it has to do with loading 'current activities'.  I was able to get an error message once but was unable to get a screen shot.  I think it said something about it 'already being in use'.

I checked our server and there is a java.exe process that seem on the high side ~717,000K on memory usage.  Is something 'off in the weeds'?  I'm hesitant to kill it b/c I'm not 100% sure what will happen, if anything.

Has anyone came across this before?
Title: Re: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: Grim on 23 Mar 2012 01:01:28 PM
Hit the dispatcher directly. A java process that high in mem is normal in a default install. If it was 2gig and you haven't got in yet I'd say that's odd.

dispatcher: http://server:port/p2pd/servlet/dispatch
Ex. http://cogserver:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch

9300 is the default port.
Title: Re: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: Tsunami on 23 Mar 2012 01:40:03 PM
I entered my dispatcher address in and got a very basic version of Cognos Connection.  However, none of the links or anything worked.  Lots of red 'x's.

Is this what I am looking for?
Title: Re: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: Grim on 23 Mar 2012 01:46:06 PM
Yes. That tells you that COgnos side of things is up. You don't have the images in the dispatcher (Unless you copy them in which is a different thread).

So now you have to look at your Webserver config. What are you using? Apache, IIS? And what version?

Usually with IIS it's the config of the virtual directories.
Title: Re: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: Tsunami on 23 Mar 2012 01:59:31 PM
I'm on IIS 6.

There haven't been any changes as far as I know.
Title: Re: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: Tsunami on 23 Mar 2012 02:05:33 PM
I did modify the index.html and default.htm files in the webcontent folder for another unresolved issue.  I just changed the url to reference isapi.  However, that was days ago and this just started yesterday afternoon.
Title: Re: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: RobsWalker68 on 26 Mar 2012 03:50:43 AM
Hi Tsunami,

I have seen this many times before and 99% of the time it's just the load being placed on the content manager/content store instead of any specific error.

Was the reporting system under heavy load at the time or does it continue to happen at times of lower demand?  This maybe especially true if alot of content creation/retrieval (pdf/Excel) is taking place. 


Rgds

Rob
Title: Re: Can't access cognos administration
Post by: Tsunami on 10 Apr 2012 08:16:42 AM
Thanks Rob for the suggestion but it was happening at all times.  We ended up restoring all settings from a backup and everything is working fine now.