Intellicus Reporting Service
The Windows Service Manager is a tool that helps designed to simplify common tasks tasks like stop or start some service, disable the service, delay its start up or resume or pause the Windows Service. Intellicus starting or stopping services, disabling services, delaying their startup, or pausing and resuming Windows Services. Kyvos Reporting Service is a Windows NT Service . It launches that runs essential Kyvos services such as the Report Server, Web Server, and Load Balancers Balancer in the SYSTEM account. Processes that run running in the SYSTEM account continue to run even after the user logs off.Figure 1: Intellicus
Purpose of Kyvos Reporting Service
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The purpose of launching these processes by a service is that user does not need to login to start the Intellicus processes. This service starts automatically when system boots up, which in turn starts Intellicus servers.
Servers
Intellicus Service Manager Kyvos Reporting Service ensures that the Kyvos processes (Report Server, Web Server, and Load Balancer) start automatically when the system boots up, eliminating the need for users to log in to launch these processes.
Servers Managed by Kyvos Reporting Service
Kyvos Reporting Service manages the following server processes:
Report Server: This server serves Provides reporting services and internal repository services to clients.
Web Server: Provides Offers a web-based interface to for users, takes requests from users and sends to report server. Receives responses from report server and sends processes user requests, sends them to the Report Server, and delivers the Report Server's responses to users.
Load Balancer Server: To achieve extended Enables scalability and high availability of Intellicus BI infrastructure, you can install Intellicus report servers on multiple machines to form a cluster and configure load balancing and fail-over.
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by allowing the distribution of load across multiple report servers in a clustered environment. The Load Balancer Server receives user requests and distributes
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them to different report servers to efficiently handle heavy loads.
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Kyvos Reporting Service Manager
Intellicus’ The Kyvos Reporting Service Manager is a Windows-based user interface that allows administrators to view and manage Intellicus the Kyvos Server processes.
Opening the Service Manager
From the Start Menu,
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navigate to
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Kyvos Reporting > Service Manager
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Figure 2: The Service Manager dialog
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Service Manager window lists all the Intellicus services that it manages along with their latest Kyvos Reporting services and their current status (like started or stopped). When you select a server is selected, its properties are displayed below the list.
Tool
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Buttons
Add: To add a new server.
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Delete: To delete a server.
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Deleting a server
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will stop it if it’s running and remove it from the manager list.
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Start: To start the selected server(
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s)
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.
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Stop: To stop the selected server(
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s)
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.
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You can highlight multiple servers
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by holding Shift + Click and then stop them all.
Logs: To view logs
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for the selected server.
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Note A server in the process of starting |
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cannot be deleted or stopped. You cannot |
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perform any actions on a server that is in the process of stopping. |
Action
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Buttons
Save: You need to click the Save button to save changes made on This option saves any changes made to the Add New Server dialog and Service Manager dialog (like any , such as configuration or global setting change)changes.
Reset: Click Reset button to abandon the changes made on Abandon any changes made to the Add New Server dialog and Service Manager dialog.
Adding a
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Server
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Important Ensure the server is in the stopped state |
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When you try adding a server that is in running state, service does not know that it is already in running state. When service tries to start such a server, the service may find configured port as “bound” and may result in an error.
To add a server, click button on Service Manager. The Add New Server dialog opens.
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Figure 3: Add New Server dialog
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before adding it. Adding a running server may lead to conflicts, such as port binding issues when the service attempts to start. |
Click the Add button in the Service Manager window. The Add New Server dialog will open.
Enter the following information for the new server:
Server Type:
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Select from Report Server, Web Server, or LoadBalancer Server.
Server Name: A unique
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identifier for the server.
The name must
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only contain letters, numerals,
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periods,
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dashes, @,
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spaces, and
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underscores.
You need to specify file name including path of:
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Executable File Path to Run Server: Specify the file path for the script that starts the server. Example:
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D:
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\Program Files\Kyvos Reporting\ReportEngine\bin\run.bat
Executable File Path to Stop Server: Specify the file path
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Example:
D:Program FilesIntellicusReportEnginebinshutdown.bat
Property file path of the server: Server will need this file to get the values like port at which the server should run, path where log file should be created log file path, etc.
Example:
D:Program FilesIntellicusReportEngineConfig ReportEngine.properties
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for the script that stops the server. Example: D:\Program Files\Kyvos Reporting\ReportEngine\bin\shutdown.bat
Property File Path: Path to the configuration file containing details such as server port, log file location, etc. Example: D:\Program Files\Kyvos Reporting\ReportEngine\Config\ReportEngine.properties
After entering all required details, click OK. The Add New Server dialog will
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close, and the newly added server will
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appear in the Service Manager dialog.
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Save the changes by clicking the Save button in the Service Manager dialog.
Server
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Properties
The below mentioned These properties are common for all the servers.Figure 4: Server Properties
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Start Servers during system boot upDuring System Boot Up: Check this box to automatically start all the servers when the system boots up. If you keep it unchecked, you servers can be manually start individual services started from the Service Manager window.
Enable autoAuto-restart Restart if servers crashServers Crash: Check this box to auto-automatically restart a server if Intellicus Service finds it crashed. Intellicus Manager will consider a server as crashed crashes. The system considers a server to be "crashed" if it is not stopped from within Intellicus via the Kyvos Reporting Service Manager.
Server startup timeout: When a server is started, Intellicus service keeps on pinging the server to know if it has started. Server startup timeout is the time in seconds for which the service will keep on pinging and wait for server to respond. If server fails to Startup Timeout: Defines the timeout (in seconds) for server startup. The system will continue pinging the server until it responds, or until the timeout is reached. If the server does not respond within this time, it stops pinging and logs error in the Event Viewer. Specify a value between 0 and 7200 (seconds)an error is logged. Valid range: 0 to 7200 seconds.
Server Process monitor interval: This is the time Monitor Interval: Defines how often the system checks if the server is running (in seconds) after which Intellicus Service will check if server is running or not. Value can be between 10 and 7200 (seconds). Valid range: 10 to 7200 seconds.