Gateway URI

[Steve]

Hi All -

In our current environment, the Gateway, Application Tier and Content Manager are all on different machines.

In the Application Tier (Dispatcher) machine, the configuration does not have the computer name but a web address of the Gateway as shown below.

Gateway URI -  https://bidev.companyname.com:443/ibmcognos/b1/v1/disp

How does cognos resolve this to the machine name? Where is this web site defined so that it can connect to the Gateway ? I would have expected something like https://<machine name>:443/ibmcognos/bi/v1/disp where ibmcognos is the virtual application in IIS on the Gateway machine.

I am asking this question because we want to change the name from bidev.companyname.com to bitest.mycompany.com

Thanks for your help.

[oscarca]

I think this is the file you want to configure:
check in C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost

[Steve]

Nope. It's not there. In earlier version of windows, it was hosts file in etc directory.

[Steve]

Anyone knows?

[dougp]

Your question appears to answer itself.  Set <machine name> to bitest.mycompany.com.

Or maybe your question is not clear or complete enough for someone to help you.
What are you trying to do?
What error messages are you getting?

[oscarca]

It doesnt work to just edit the Gateway URI and Dispatcher in Cognos Configuration under the Environment tap ? or create an rewrite-rule in iis under the Default web site ?

[Steve]

I did mention that I would have expected machine name to be part of the URL so that means the machine name is different than the user friendly URL mentioned in the gateway.

I did check URL re-write and did not see the URL bitest.mycompany.com there though I do see the authentication namespace there. Can't change the machine name especially when the URL is working with the machine name different than the URL. Just putting the URL in the Gateway doesn't work when I change it. The URL is embedded somewhere and that's why it is working, don't know where. That's what I want to know. I too thought that it should be in URL re-write but I don't see it. Maybe I would just try to create a new rule in URL re-write and see how that goes.

[sdf]

Load balancer and dns names, where you can set aliases to your servername.