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IAADMIN returns Error 401 when importing a project

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:31 am
by infodfs
When I'm importing a project back to IA DEV via IAADMIN, it returns Error 401, but no description with it. Could anyone tell me what the reason is to cause this error? I restarted my PC and also Ping the server with no problem. Thanks for help in advance.

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:15 am
by rjdickson
Can you please provide the version you are using, and the command line (with the password x'd out) that you are using?

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:56 am
by infodfs
The IA version is 8.7 and command line is as below:
iaadmin -user XXXXXXX -password XXXXXXXXXXX -host [host.name] -port 9080 -xml -getProject -projectName [project_name] -output C:\IBM\InformationServer87\temp\[file_name.xml]

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:07 am
by chulett
I don't know specifically what it means here but a "401" error is generally an authentication error, an "unauthorized" attempt to do something. Out of curiosity, does your user have the permissions it would need to do this?

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:17 am
by rjdickson
...also...
Your command line is to get project content, not import as you originally said. Is this the command line returning the error?

Is your install a Windows only install?

Can you login with the userid and password you specified in the command line?

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 10:23 am
by chulett
So... this is intermittent? Meaning you use the identical command line several times and it sometimes works and it sometimes fails? Or now that you've started to get the 401 error you can no longer do imports or exports? :?

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:41 am
by infodfs
Yes, it's intermittent. I could do Import/Export this early morning, but I got Error 401 afterward. I just heard that our InfoSphere development environment had logon issues on BG and MW tools. Could it be related because of the issue on BG/MW tools?

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:57 am
by PaulVL
LDAP or local ids?