ODBC: Telnet was Successful and Ping was Unsuccessful

[Purushothaman]

Hi there,

I was trying to create a ODBC connection for a MS SQL Server. The test connection was failed.  Below are the troubleshooting steps:

>Telnet was successful from Qlik sense  server to DB Server.

> Ping was unsuccessful from Qlik sense server to DB Server.

Does Ping should be successful for  a ODBC connection from Qlik sense server to DB Server.?  

[Jack_Guo]

Hi @Purushothaman ,

Have you tried Test-netconnection?

Test-NetConnection -ComputerName xxxx -Port xxx​

[Daniele_Purrone · Accepted solution]

Hi @Purushothaman ! Ping/ICMP is often disabled by system/network administrators for security reasons, but that has nothing to do with our connectors. We don't rely on ICMP, so it is not required to be able to ping the server for the connection to work.

[Purushothaman]

Tried in PowerShell. It was successful.