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Issues with dual server install
john.trumbul
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Hello All,
I am stuck after trying just about everything i have found on the topic. I Currently have the following setup that I am attempting to install SQL Monitor 3 on:
Web Server with IIS7
SQL Server 2012 Server
I am a domain admin on both servers. Both servers are also under the same domain. I was able to install the base monitor on the sql server machine. I have verified that my account has full control over the folders specified in the installation documentation.
Base monitor installed successfully, i went into the services manager on the sql server and set the base monitor to run under my account, and made sure it is running.
On the web server i installed the software setup the application in IIS and set the application pool to run under my account as well. when i load the monitor webpage regardless of whether or not i access it through localhost or the ip address. It asks me to connect to the base monitor server. I have put in the name and port trying both the ip address and the domain name along with the default port the base monitor setup for me. I looked at the firewall settings on the base monitor server and created a rule to open that port allowing all connections for right now just to try to get past this, yet still no matter what i do i always end up with the following error:
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 10.1.1.1:7399
If anyone can help me get past this error it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
JT++
Not sure if its important or not but just as a side note: running command prompt as admin from each of the servers i am able to ping the other by using the domain name and the ip address
I am stuck after trying just about everything i have found on the topic. I Currently have the following setup that I am attempting to install SQL Monitor 3 on:
Web Server with IIS7
SQL Server 2012 Server
I am a domain admin on both servers. Both servers are also under the same domain. I was able to install the base monitor on the sql server machine. I have verified that my account has full control over the folders specified in the installation documentation.
Base monitor installed successfully, i went into the services manager on the sql server and set the base monitor to run under my account, and made sure it is running.
On the web server i installed the software setup the application in IIS and set the application pool to run under my account as well. when i load the monitor webpage regardless of whether or not i access it through localhost or the ip address. It asks me to connect to the base monitor server. I have put in the name and port trying both the ip address and the domain name along with the default port the base monitor setup for me. I looked at the firewall settings on the base monitor server and created a rule to open that port allowing all connections for right now just to try to get past this, yet still no matter what i do i always end up with the following error:
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 10.1.1.1:7399
If anyone can help me get past this error it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
JT++
Not sure if its important or not but just as a side note: running command prompt as admin from each of the servers i am able to ping the other by using the domain name and the ip address
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The connection between the webservice and the base monitor uses .NET remoting, so in addition to firewalls blocking port 7399 and/or the SOAP (protocol), it could be a problem traversing a NAT interface. Remoting does not play well with NAT because AFAIK it has to make a connection back to the caller and NAT usually only allows this communication one-way.
If you're using a virtual machine for the base monitor, you may want to use connection sharing rather than NAT.
Thank you for your assistance. What the issue ended up being was an improperly configured firewall rule on my end. I essentially reversed the order of the local and remote port values. Once i fixed them the monitor connected just fine.
Thanks again.
John
Thanks for the follow-up -- I suppose that a firewall needs to have the connection allowed both ways for the same reason it doesn't work well with NAT.