Hi!
I posted this in the Splunk Forums the other day but I stumbled on Answers this morning and it seems like it may be more active. Here's my (slightly edited) post from the forums:
I was playing with the PDF report delivery feature in 4.1 and I ran into a problem.
I downloaded the pdfserver app and I've got xfvb installed. Checked the status page link in "Manager>>System Settings>>Email alert settings" and I get the sample pdf in the blue box. So I scheduled a View for PDF delivery and got the following in the email it generated:
An error occurred while generating a PDF of this report: Failed to fetch PDF from appserver: urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused
I started off with the "Remote PDF Report Server URL" setting blank but after I got the error message I tried "https://serverip:8089/services/pdfserver/renderpdf" I get the error message either way and either way also gets me the sample pdf on the status page.
The "Connection refused" sounded like a firewall issue but I disabled the firewall and still got the error message.
I also checked the "PDF Server Activity" view and the only line in the "Recent PDF server activity" section for an execution of the schedule is the error that is reported in the email. For viewing the sample PDF though, there are several lines relating to xfvb starting and stopping and the pdf being generated.
I'm running RHEL 5.2 and as I said, Splunk 4.1
Thanks,
Paul
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