Comments on: How Do I Run a Report Against a Specific Job or Report Server? Easy!

By: anjali

anjali — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:41:49 +0000

But how i can restrict each user to be able to use a specific server group?
Is there any .NET API exists for this or any CMC settings needed?

Please advice…

By: Asd

Asd — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:42:17 +0000

Thanks a million to Julian & Marshall. I got a lot of tips after reading your posts/comments.
Great work !!
Do keep it up.

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:45:22 +0000

I can’t think of a bulk method for this. Sorry. Unless, perhaps you used two different user accounts to schedule the reports and then you restricted each user to only being able to use a specific server group. That might work.

By: Marek

Marek — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:53:07 +0000

Hi,

Assume that we have tens of scheduled reports and I need to assign the half of them to 1 server group and the second half to another server group.

Is there an easy way to this change in bulk or do I need to change each and every report, one by one?

Thank you.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:27:36 +0000

1) Well, note that the Process tab has two sections. The top one specifies the server group when scheduled, and the bottom one for viewing and modification. So, if you do not specify a server group either when scheduling in InfoView or in the scheduling section of the Process tab, it would use a random server. Specifying a group in either section would restrict it to that group (or give priority, if that’s all you want). I would imagine that if you specified it in both locations with different server groups, it would probably take the schedule in InfoView as the priority, as it is the more specific object.

3) I’d love to know if you find anything. So far, I’ve come up blank. It’s been kind of an annoyance for one user who runs daily reports against our Large Reports group. If he’s out for a couple days, he has to go back through his instances. Then he has to take the crapshoot to see if he’s lucky enough to have it randomly run against the right server when viewing.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:41:33 +0000

Hi Marshall,

Thanks for the in-depth analysis and information. Very interesting.

1) I was wondering if you found that a report assigned to a server group in the process tab only runs against random servers when scheduled if you do not assign this during the scheduling. Just trying to completely crack this nut. My thinking was the process tab settings controlled everything and schedule settings controlled just that schedule. Do you agree?

2) Good point. Also, make sure those users have access to those server groups.

3) I was not aware of this. I assumed that they inherited this. I will look into this one.

4) Good to know.

Thanks,
Julian

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:04:51 +0000

A few things we’ve noticed with this. First, we use this in order to segregate our “large” reports to a single server. This lets us restrict most of our report servers to 10MB, which handles 95% of the traffic just fine. The other 5% is segregated to a specific server which is set with a 300MB limit.

1) The Report Scheduler in InfoView allows you to specify a server group to run the report against.

2) When the report is opened in DocumentViewer, it passes through the report server again. The schedule settings do not kick in at this point, only the Process tab settings. So, if your users are opening the report and attempting to use the “Save to my computer as” function, you’d better have the server group specified on the Process tab.

3) If you open an instance of the report, whether the latest instance using View Latest Instance or a previous instance from History, even the Process tab settings are ignored. It just uses a random server. If you can tell me how to fix this behavior, I’d be most grateful.

4) You cannot specify a server group for Xcelsius dashboards running through BOXI.