What environment did you run the installer on?
If Windows, did you have IIS enabled before running the installer?
I had some oddities when attempting to install a version that no longer includes the PWS (including a few self inflicted), and found that the best method was to:
- Enable IIS
- Run the installer (making sure to select the option to "Configure local IIS web server for this instance" when the installer prompts)
- check the default site in IIS to make sure it's got all the "sites" required (api,csp,etc).
- Restart the "Default web site" in IIS
- Navigate to http://hostname/csp/bin/Systems/Module.cxw per ludwig's reply below, logging in with the password you set during install along with the username "CSPSystem"
- Attempt the test via "Test Server Connection"
- If that fails, go to "Server Access" select the instance and edit server, and make sure that the config has the Username/password set there as well before retesting.
2025 edit:
For instances where VSS can be utilised, the above scripts are no longer required and instead this entire setup can be replaced with the following steps:
- Set EnableVSSBackup = 1 in iris.cpf or via the management portal
- Enable the vSphere snapshot option "Quiesce guest file system"
This is based on information found in the documentation here which towards the bottom reads:
InterSystems IRIS supports the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows by acting as a writer on behalf of its databases. Copies of InterSystems IRIS databases included in a VSS shadow are physically consistent, although not logically consistent with respect to transactions, and therefore may be restored individually. To ensure the transactional integrity of these restored databases, journal files should also be restored. Only databases that are mounted at the time of VSS shadow creation are included in the VSS shadow.
The VSS writer for InterSystems IRIS can be started only by an administrator.
On Windows systems, EnableVSSBackup parameter in the iris.cpf file is set to 1 (enabled) by default. At InterSystems IRIS startup, the message “InterSystems IRIS VSS Writer started” is written to the messages log. When you create a VSS shadow copy, InterSystems IRIS automatically calls Backup.General.ExternalFreeze()Opens in a new tab and Backup.General.ExternalThaw()Opens in a new tab, as indicated by messages in the messages log.
IMPORTANT:If you use VSS, make to use vSphere snapshot option Quiesce guest file system. This option invokes calls the VSS callbacks, which will freeze the database before the snapshot and thaw the database after the snapshot. The messages log will show VSS Writer: OnFreeze and VSS Writer: OnThaw.
In contrast, without this option, vSphere performs only a memory snapshot and the messages log does not contain these messages.
Hey Thembelani.
You have a few options you can go for depending on what formats you are attempting to convert from.
You could look at something like using pandoc via the command line (as in, building an operation that does the command line calling, and then creating a set of request/response classes to call from a Process in your IRIS instance), or with with Python becoming more popular in IRIS, you could look what packages are available for doing what you're looking to do.
You could also look at libreoffice from the command line, but I found that headless libreoffice was a fair bit slower when running on Windows vs linux, so you may not get a lot of use with this approach depending on what you're running on.