Essbase Administration Services: Cant connect to Administration Server

Question

Cant connet to Administration Server via EAS console. I would appreciate any hints that might help me overcome this next unknown.
Background follows:
I installed EPMA 11.1.2.2, and then went to the workspace wondering where the sample data was (after I created a sample app). I discovered in docs and forumns that I had to load it through the Essbase Administration Services console. Now I'm trying to get that to work. I installed it after posts revealed that it is part of the client installers (thanks John) package. Now that it is installed I run it, try to login, and get an error message that says "could not connect to Administration Server." I reinstalled the EAS database as a new install to my server.mydomainb.org:1433 via the configurator. Then I redployed all the apps to the app server. And lastly started all of the services. Still I get the same message. I've done this about 4 times hoping that a reconfig will somehow fix something but still no joy. I've also tried loggin in with different names for the server such as myserver:1433 or myserver.mydomain.org:1433 or myserver and none of those helped either.
I have manually started all the services so they appear to be working. I may be missing one but I wouldn't know.
The services that are running include:
Hyperion EPM Server - Web Application
Hyperion EPMA Server
Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management
Hyperion Integration Services
Hyperion Reporting and Analysis Framework
Hyperion Studion Services BPMS bpms1
Some in posts have suggested also going to the logs. 11.1.2.2 docs say that the EAS logs are located at oracle_home\user_projects\domains\epmsystem\servers\EssAdm..Services0\logs\easserver.log. But I found mine at:
<oracle_home>\user_projects\domains\epmsystem1\servers\logs. You will notice that my empsystem is empsystem1 instead. There I found that the easserver.log file is empty but I did find one error in the file EPMServer0.log. The error I found is as follows:
####<Apr 4, 2013 11:42:09 AM MDT> <Error> <JDBC> <SLCBRASSTEST> <EPMServer0> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '18' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1365097329966> <BEA-001112> <Test "select count(*) from SERVERLOGID" set up for pool "eas_datasource" failed with exception: "java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: [FMWGEN][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid object name 'SERVERLOGID'.".>
I'm not sure what to try next so any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

Answer 1

"Hyperion EPM Server - Web Application" indicates that the web apps have been deployed to a single managed server, this means the web apps will be running a default port of 9000, the EAS console is not aware of the port so you will need to include it when you add the server in the console e.g. servername:9000
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/