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Requirements and Limitations
- NPrinting requires a Dedicated NPrinting server service account and a dedicate Named CAL/Desktop license.
NOTE: Do NOT change any of the other NPrinting services ie: audit service, scheduler service etc.
- If you have only a single NPrinting Engine and NP server, then the NP service account used to install and run the NPrinting server can also be used to run the single NPrinting Engine service.
- However, if you have more than one NP engine, you will require separate dedicated NP service accounts for each additional NPrinting Engine.
- Sharing service user accounts between different NPrinting and QlikView servers is is NOT a supported configuration. One NPrinting Dedicated Service Account per NPrinting Engine is required.
- Single NPrinting Engine: One Service Account can be used for the NP Engine, NP Scheduler and NP Web Engine services on the 'Same' NP server exclusively
- If you are using a service account that is in daily use by separate NPrinting Engine, QlikView user or QlikView server, this will cause contention issues due to the attempt to share a user QlikView CAL between two separate server environments. Doing so will inevitably cause failure in normal NPrinting operation.
- Expected failure behavior of a 'shared' NPrinting service account is that NPrinting Schedules and Tasks get will get hung up in the background server service due to contention between the QlikView services and the NPrinting Engine service
- QlikView Personal Edition is not supported. A valid User CAL must be assigned to the NPrinting service account or QV desktop license installed while logged on as the NPrinting service account.
- Default user rights assignments have been modified or changed by local or network active directory group policy.
NOTE: See the QlikView resolution section below to resolve the following verification error:
x The QlikView Desktop License is valid
NOTE: With QVP NPrintng Connections the QV desktop installed on the NPrinting Server MUST be the same version as the QVS QlikView Server. You will experience NP Verification errors if they are not the same version.
To ensure NPrinting Connections work correctly, please take the following steps:
1. Create a dedicated account, which:
- is a domain account that is a member of the local Administrators group on the NPrinting server and the QlikView Administrators group on the QlikView server
- has a manually assigned CAL from a PRODUCTION ONLY QlikView Management Console (QMC) or a locally installed QlikView desktop license. (a QlikView TEST server does not issue valid user CALs for use with NPrinting Production reporting. If you are operating a Proof of Concept, please contact your Qlik Account Manager who can arrange a QlikView server PROD Trial License)
- has 'log on as a service' user rights assignment applied to it
- is not be shared with any other NPrinting server environment or QlikView server. Each NPrinting Environment MUST have its own NPrinting server service account
- other than "log on as as service", all default domain policies associated with the NPrinting domain service account must remain unchanged. If changed this will likely have a negative impact and unexpected behavior in your NPrinting server environment.
- NP (Server/Engine) DEV - NPsvcAccount1
- NP (Server/Engine) TEST - NPsvcAccount2
- NP (Server/Engine) PROD - NPsvcAccount3
Or In a Single NPrinting Environment with Multiple NP Engines (Example PROD Environment with 3 NP Engines)
- NP (Server/Engine) PROD - NPsvcAccountPROD1
- NP (Server/Engine) PROD - NPsvcAccountPROD2
- NP (Server/Engine) PROD - NPsvcAccountPROD3
- is from the same domain that the NPrinting Server is a member of.
- has access to all network resources where NPrinting related files are located if for example output, temp, qvw, report template, recipient folders are stored on the network. But please note that the use of Mapped Drives with NPrinting is not support. You must you UNC network paths if you must access network resources with NPrinting. ie: \\servername\sharename\nprinting\templates is a valid UNC shared path.
- Mapped drive such as Z:NPrinting\Templates is not supported.
Note: NPrinting does not support the use of multiple domain environments. Specifically, the NPrinting service account used to run the NPrinting server service must be a user account that is in the same domain that the NPrinting server is a member of. The error in Figure 1.3 below may result when an external domain user account is used to install NPrinting with.
2. Manually assign a QlikView Named User CAL to the NPrinting service account and then:
- Log onto the NPrinting server as the dedicated NPrinting service account (note that you may also open the QV.exe found in "c:\program files\qlikview\" as a different user)
- Open the QlikView desktop and do a 'File>Open in server' to the Production QlikView server to pull down the manually assigned CAL This steps effectively licenses the QV desktop on the NPrinting server
- Navigate to the QVW you wish to connect to
- If you cannot view the QVW, then you need to check that you have added the NP service account to the:
- Local administrators group on the NP server
- QlikView Administrators group on the QlikView server(s)
- If you have QlikView Publisher, publish the QVW to the NP domain user service account so that the QVW can be access using "File>Open in Server" while logged onto the NPrinting server/engine computer as the NPrinting server/engine service account.
If using a QlikView desktop CAL rather than a CAL from the QMC
- Log on to the NP server
- Open the QlikView desktop
- Go to settings/user preferences/license tab
- Click 'Change' to apply the license key and control number
Figure 1.1 Configure Desktop License
- If making QVP connections from NPrinting, please ensure the correct permissions have been applied to the NP server service account via report distribution task in the QMC as shown below in order to allow the NP service account to make QVP connections.
Figure 1.2 Configure/Manually Assign a Named CAL for the NP service account (do not allow the NP service account to "dynamically" lease a Named or Session CAL)
NOTE: The NP service account, built-in Windows 'Network Service' and 'local' accounts should not have any default user rights assignments removed from it via Active Directory Group Policy. In some large network enterprises, user rights assignments are removed or changed for service account. User rights assignments must remain in their default state to ensure that Qlik NPrinting can be installed correctly and work as designed. Changing/removing any default user assignments via local group policy editor or through global network group policy management will adversely impact the installation and running of the NPrinting server environment. If policy is changed, the following similar to the one below may occur during setup and installation. See figure 1.3:
Figure 1.3
3. File access
Finally, the NP service account must have network folder and file full permission access to all network file/folder locations for which it must connect to ie: such as output file locations on the network etc. Failure to provide the NP service account with adequate computer and network permissions will result in data reload and task hanging and report generation failures. Also as a reminder if using QlikView Publisher, the QVW must be published to the NPrinting dedicated service domain user account in order to allow NPrinting Connections to that QVW on the publisher server.
NPrinting Connections with Qlik Sense
If you are running instances of NPrinting Start from June 2019 release of NPrinting and later versions
- A Dedicated NPrinting Service Account is recommended for troubleshooting purposes but not required when operating June 2019 or later releases of NPrinting and connecting to Qlik Sense exclusively
- There are no limitations regarding usage of token or analyzer or professional licenses with the NPrinting service account. (See attached release notes from June 2019. Resolved defect Jira issue ID: OP-8658).
- See Qlik Help for details here: Qlik Sense User Account Requirements Section - Additional Qlik Sense requirements
From April 2019 and earlier versions,
- A dedicated NPrinting service account should be used with Qlik Sense implementation with NPrinting
- A token (original license model) or analyzer license (new license model)
- Do NOT use a Professional License as this will cause connection, report preview and task failures. Use 'analyzer' license where applicable
- If a QS token or analyzer license is not explicitly assigned to a dedicated NPrinting service account and the Qlik Sense service account is used to run the NPrinting services, this may cause performance problems and issues for both Qlik Sense and NPrinting. See related article: Qlik Sense April 2018 and later- Service account getting "You cannot access Qlik Sense because you h...
- Therefore, a dedicated NPrinting service account should be used to mitigate issues connecting to Qlik Sense from NPrinting where the NPrinting services and Qlik Sense services are sharing the same domain user account to run their respective Windows services.
Note: Upgrading to NPrinting June 2019 or later versions removes the necessity for a dedicated user account and an assigned "Token" or "Analyzer" license for exclusively NPrinting and Qlik Sense connections.
NPrinting QlikView and Qlik Sense connections within a single NPrinting Environment.
- If connecting to both QlikView and Qlik Sense and there are multiple NPrinting engines, a dedicated NPrinting service account for each engine will be necessary to ensure normal operations.
Ports (QlikView and or Qlik Sense):
- Each NPrinting Engine computer must be configure to allow specific ports. For details, see the help page in the link below
- https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/Content/NPrinting/DeployingQVNprinting/Ports.htm
User Rights Assignment: (Qlik Sense and QlikView)
- The NPrinting Service account MUST be a member of the local administrators group
- R&D has not certified any user rights assignment permissions that emulate the permissions associated with being a member of the local administrators group as specified in the user account help page. https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/Content/NPrinting/DeployingQVNprinting/User-accounts.htm
Requirements
The Qlik NPrinting Server services administrator must:
- Be a member of the local Administrators group.
- Have Log on as a service rights.
Related Information:
QlikView
- Qlik NPrinting Service User Account Requirements
- Connecting to QlikView documents
- Supported and Unsupported System Configurations
- Unsupported QV Items and Connection Configuration
- NPrinting Server Web Console Publish Task Completely Hangs
Qlik Sense
- Connecting to Qlik Sense Apps
- Connecting to Qlik Sense Apps: Qlik Sense Certificate Configuration
- Qlik NPrinting Service User Account Requirements - Section: Additional Qlik Sense requirements:
To connect Qlik NPrinting to Qlik Sense apps:
- Add Qlik Sense server certificates to the Qlik NPrinting Engine. See: Exporting and installing Qlik Sense certificates
- The same Windows user account can be used for all Qlik NPrinting Engine installations if you are only connecting to Qlik Sense.
The Windows user account that runs the Qlik NPrinting Engine service must have:
- RootAdmin authorization configured in the QMC.
- A domain user account that is a member of the same domain as the Qlik NPrinting server and the Qlik Sense server
