Changing Essbase Port from 1423

Question

Hello everyone. I have a situation where our technology group does some system polling on port 1423. When this happens, it causes the Essbase service (9.3.1 on Windows 32 bit) to shut down. In order to prevent this, I need to get the port number changed by running through the configuration again and assigning a different port for EAS (running on a separate Linux box) and Essbase.
Are there any other changes I would need to make for the client connections? I saw Doug Ware mention in another thread that the Essbase Excel add-in uses that same port. Would I have to tell my users to use the "server:port" if it's assigned to a number other than 1423?
Thanks,
Robert

Answer 1

You can use an Essbase.cfg file on the client to assign a different port using the AGENTPORT command, or like you said, use the <server>:<port> entry in the connection dialog. There are probably other ways to do this as well.
Edit: I can't go into too many details here, but the "other ways" usually involves setting the routers up so that access from a particular router would get remapped from port 1423 to your destination port automatically, so any traffic coming in from that source would be re-routed. I'd be tempted to ask if your IT folks could use this to use a different port to monitor that server, since it's likely that the source of that computer could be isolated -- this would require that they remap the listener on your server.
Long story short, the IT department should be the flexible ones in this story -- changing production to allow a support process to remain constant is bass ackwards.