topic Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected in QlikView

Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Dear Gurus,

We have recently(mid of Sep) upgraded our Qlikview server from V10 to V11.2 SR8. After that services are up and running file.

Last week while our server team has restarted the server as part of proactive maintenance, Distribution service is not starting. We have observed the following:

Error Message:

When we compared the Config file under Distribution folder with backup config file before reboot, Entry in the config file is pointing to Management Service folder as below.

Before reboot , it was having entry as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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We suspect that the reboot of the server has activated something in the Qlikview setup, that is now overwriting this config file when the service is started.

We have manually updated config file to point to distribution service path and restarted. After restart of the services, config file is overridden with following entry "<Setting Name="ApplicationDataFolder" Value="C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\ManagementService" />"

Kindly share your thoughts to identify the possible reason.

Best Regards,

Chinna katiki

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Re: Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

ashfaq_haseeb — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:25:44 GMT

Hi,

Check if this helps

http://community.qlik.com/message/417232#417232

Regards

ASHFAQ

Re: Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:20:48 GMT

Hi Ashfaq,

Thanks for the quick reply. I have tried the Loctdr command and also few other steps suggested by Community Gurus. Still it didn't work.

Regards,

Chinna

Re: Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

ashfaq_haseeb — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:24:02 GMT

Did you try y restarting server once.

and make sure you selected start-up type as Delayed Start for all your QlikView Services.

Let me know if that worked.

Regards

ASHFAQ

Re: Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:02:04 GMT

Hi Ashfaq,

Unfortunately delayed start also not worked after restart of server.

What could be possible reason for wrong entry(with management service path) being overridden in Config file under Distribution service folder after restart?

Regards,

Chinna

Re: Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:30:38 GMT

Try with editing the entry in the config file to "" instead of a path.

Then restart.

This should pick up the correct path.

Re: Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:27:29 GMT

Issue has been resolved after changing the following entry(C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\ManagementService ) in configuration.xml under \\AppData\DistributionService folder to T:\\QlikviewSTG\AppData\DistributioServie.

Regards,

Chinna

Re: Distribution Service is not starting / Distribution Service Disconnected

QlikAngel — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:04:28 GMT

Hi,

How you did this ..

\\AppData\DistributionService folder to T:\\QlikviewSTG\AppData\DistributioServie.

I am not getting in configuration.xml what to change ..