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Title: Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)
Post by: akhattri on 02 Jun 2010 02:06:15 PM
Hi All,
I am doing a standalone installation of Cognos 8.4.1 on my Windows 7 (32 bit) machine. All the installation has been done and I can login through the cognos URL on localhost. Everything seems to work except the administration tab. It throws the following error:
"Error!       
PF-SRV-6119 Received remote fault: Failed to send HTTP request or read HTTP response
Details | Retry | Hide this message.
"
Was wondering if anybody has been able to successfully able to implement it on their machine?
I am using SQL Server 2008.

The IBM support doesn't seem to be helping much as they simply say Windows 7 is not compliant with Cognos 8.4.1.

Any help is appreciated.

Title: Re: Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)
Post by: ducthcogtechie on 04 Jun 2010 03:32:24 AM
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config or to <cognos_home>/c8/cgi-bin/web.config.  Check those files for the following entry:

<add name="CGI-cognos" path="*.cgi" verb="*" modules="CgiModule" resourceType="Unspecified"  />

and add allowPathInfo="true" to it like this:

<add name="CGI-cognos" path="*.cgi" verb="*" modules="CgiModule" resourceType="Unspecified" allowPathInfo="true" />
Title: Re: Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)
Post by: MFGF on 09 Jun 2010 10:13:57 AM
Thanks - very useful info!

You should probably update your Cognoise profile to reflect your current email address, by the way.

Cheers!

MF.
Title: Re: Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)
Post by: smiley on 09 Jun 2010 11:03:07 AM
Email is set to hidden if i'm not mistaking.
And too busy to handle forum mail anyway  ;)
Title: Re: Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)
Post by: MFGF on 09 Jun 2010 11:18:51 AM
Quote from: smiley on 09 Jun 2010 11:03:07 AM
Email is set to hidden if i'm not mistaking.
And too busy to handle forum mail anyway  ;)

No - I didn't mean the email address should be made visible.  What I meant is that dutchcogtechie is registered under an email address which is no longer valid, so it was simply a suggestion to update it to a current email address.

MF.
Title: Re: Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)
Post by: andysin on 14 Jul 2011 04:20:01 AM
Hi, I was referring to the resolution mentioned above. However, I couldnt find both of the files in the said directories. My case is I'm installing it in XP. Please advice. Thanks
Title: Re: Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)
Post by: MFGF on 15 Jul 2011 03:40:37 AM
Quote from: andysin on 14 Jul 2011 04:20:01 AM
Hi, I was referring to the resolution mentioned above. However, I couldnt find both of the files in the said directories. My case is I'm installing it in XP. Please advice. Thanks

You shouldn't have any issues with launching the Admin console under XP - it's just in Windows 7 (which ships with IIS7 as the web server).

Regards,

MF.