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Title: Cognos Services will down and comes up automatically. (IBM Interview question)
Post by: krishnadwbi on 16 Dec 2015 08:20:39 PM
Hi Folks,

Good Morning!

this is one of the interview question which I haven't answer. could some one help me to understand.

"Why cognos services will go down and comes up automatically. What is the reason and why it will happen?


Thanks in Advance... :)
Regards
Krishna M
Title: Re: Cognos Services will down and comes up automatically. (IBM Interview question)
Post by: sunosoft on 16 Dec 2015 08:57:45 PM
Not sure what your interviewer was expecting on this.

The only thing i can recall is if because of some reason your cognos server gets restarted and if services startup type is set to "Automatic" then your cognos service will go down and come up automatically.

I don't remember any other case where I was fortunate enough that my Cognos environment came up automatically.  :P :)
Title: Re: Cognos Services will down and comes up automatically. (IBM Interview question)
Post by: Michael75 on 18 Dec 2015 03:23:56 AM
Because you've got a scheduled overnight task that stops and restarts the Cognos services?

(We actually did this for a few months, while on 8.3, due to some problem of instability which I've long since forgotten).
Title: Re: Cognos Services will down and comes up automatically. (IBM Interview question)
Post by: sdf on 21 Dec 2015 09:28:39 PM
may also be cause by memory outage. If too many reports are running at a given time together with other services, cognos service might got down and if your service is set to start automatically it will restart or if the service is set to restart for a particular number of times after failure. hence, i can see the closest would be that it is scheduled to do so, can be for many reasons.