Launch batch job thru SOAP call : no execution, connection OK.

Question

Hello,
I am experiencing some problems launching batch jobs thru Web Services. I have added batch job "EPN_Test_Webservices" to the Web Services and enabled the Job Attributes.
When I try to launch the job thru a SOAP call, I get a reply but the job is not executed.
This is the SOAP envelope:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
     <SOAP-ENV:Body>
          <m:EPN_Test_Webservices_Job xmlns:m="http://www.businessobjects.com/DataIntegrator/ServerX.xsd">
               <job_parameters>
                    <job_system_profile>String</job_system_profile>
                    <sampling_rate>10</sampling_rate>
                    <auditing>true</auditing>
                    <recovery>true</recovery>
                    <job_server>JS_ict</job_server>
                    <trace>String</trace>
               </job_parameters>
          </m:EPN_Test_Webservices_Job>
     </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
This is the reply I get:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
     <soapenv:Body>
          <BatchJobResponse>
               <pid>3888</pid>
               <cid>13</cid>
          </BatchJobResponse>
     </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
When I use the "ping" operation I get the following reply:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
     <soapenv:Body>
          <pingVersion>
               <version>Business Objects Data Integrator Version 11.7.2.0</version>
          </pingVersion>
     </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
...which indicates the connection works. Also the "processed counter" increases, but the job does not get executed. There is nothing in the  job log, there is no result (the job is supposed to write a record in a database table). What can be wrong?

Answer 1

If I run the following (on the machine I'm trying to set up the share)
smbclient -L localhost -U%
I got the following output
Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
so I thought it might be something incorrect with the iptables side of things, however I haven't really touched that at all and it seems to look correct
iptables -nvL
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 667 packets, 79977 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 157 packets, 20724 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
So from my (very little) knowledge this appears correct (I think)... However it appears that something is blocking access somewhere.