Report Services Running when it's not...

[benvegiard]

I know... odd subject, but it got you to read the message, right?

I am running RS on Win2003 and for many reports it's fine. I have a group of reports going through a couple of datasources that are acting odd, so I have been troubleshooting...

During this troubleshooting, I have found that if I shut down the ReportServer service, I can still access the Report Manager website. I felt that was odd.... so I cycled the IIS service thinking the web site was using Cached information. I can still access the website. So I ran a report, and it generated output!!

I'm confused. To my understanding, reports should not render if the ReportServer service is shutdown. I have checked that the only other machine running RS has the service stopped.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this one? I am confused and lost to how to troubleshoot this one...

Thanks,
Ben

 

[benvegiard]

OK, I have completely shut-down the ReportServer service and rebooted the machine just in case the service is continueing to run and simply reporting that it's not. The machine rebooted and I verified that the service is not running. However, reports are continuing to generate with new data, and I am even creating new reports, posting them, and running them. Info is not coming from any kind of cache.

Does anyone know how to go about verifying what machine/services is handling the Report Services requests? Does anyone know if RS uses services OTHER than "ReportServer"?

Thanksk,
Ben

 

[Catadmin]

IIS is what runs the website, not RS. Try shutting down both IIS and RS services and see if that works.



Catadmin - MCDBA, MCSA
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