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sundarakumar
Specialist II
Specialist II

Trigger task from Big data

Hi All,

I have a scenario in which my Qlikview task needs to be triggerd form big data which is a unix server. I think EDX cannot help if the other server is unix. Can anyone help me with a solution?

Regards,

Sundar

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rwunderlich
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

One of the challenges in EDX is that it requires intergrated Windows authentication which is difficult from unix. What I've done is install a web service on a windows machine that does the EDX call. Then call the web service from the unix box using java or any language.

The web service I've used is this one

http://www.qlikblog.at/2321/qliktip-47-reloading-qlikview-documents-using-the-ajax-mobile-client-tri...

from Stefan Walther.

-Rob

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rwunderlich
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

One of the challenges in EDX is that it requires intergrated Windows authentication which is difficult from unix. What I've done is install a web service on a windows machine that does the EDX call. Then call the web service from the unix box using java or any language.

The web service I've used is this one

http://www.qlikblog.at/2321/qliktip-47-reloading-qlikview-documents-using-the-ajax-mobile-client-tri...

from Stefan Walther.

-Rob

sundarakumar
Specialist II
Specialist II
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Thanks for the reply Rob.