Temporarily Redirect Users to "Maintenance Page" instead of AP

[prees959]

Hi,

We are looking to redirect users (when required) to a maintenance/holding page while we carry out some work rather than simple stopping the services.

We are solely using QVS and not IIS.  Would it simply be a case of creating a maintenance.html page within C:\Program Files\QlikView\Web and updating the QMC or similar?

Any help appreciated,

Phil

[Josh_Berg_Support]

Phil,

There's no built-in or supported method in which to redirect users to another page when they try to access the Accesspoint using Qlikview Webserver.  One idea would be to make the Accesspoint URL redirect during the time you want users directed away from the Accesspoint, that would be done on the network side of your environment.  Once the maintenance is complete, you could have your network team disable the redirect and have traffic go back to the Accesspoint.  

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Josh

Qlik Support

[rwunderlich]

You can create a trivial redirect page on another webserver as Josh suggested. but that does require you to have another server. 

If you can keep the QV Web Server (QVWS) running during the work, you can utilize the "Custom system message" property in the QMC:

Then you can take the QV Server service down and users will see an AP screen like:

This of course will not work if you are doing things like rebooting the server where QVWS runs. 

-Rob
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[Josh_Berg_Support]

Rob, as usual, has also provided an excellent suggestion for a workaround here. 

Looks like you've got a few option here, let us know which one you go with!

Thanks,
Josh

Qlik Support