Aris Architect/Designer can't connect to Publisher

Hello Bernard,

I am not quite sure to understand what you are trying to do.

1.) If you want to set up the connection from Aris Design/Connect Server to Publisher Server from your Architect client and your Publisher is not listening on the default port, then you need to configure Design/Connect Server first:

(My incidents solution by SAG support) to change a Design Server property (port 80 as an example):

• Open the ARIS Server Administrator (arisadm90.exe) tool and connect to your ARIS server
• Enter the following command: set abs.bp.port 80
• The setting will become active instantly

This way of config change will not be overwritten by an update installation of ARIS, whereas manually editing the corresponding file

ARIS9.8\server\bin\work\work_abs_<SIZE>\base\webapps\abs\config\defaultServerSettings.cfg

is "unsafe".

2.) Which Aris release do you use? Your mentioning a modified Publisher/tomcat web.xml reminds me of changes when updating to Aris 9.8.6 / 9.8.7. Only the ARIS - Update Cookbook instructs to manually update the Design Server's web.xml:

7.7 Update setting for ARIS Publisher Server
When updating to ARIS 9.8 SR6 or SR7 a manual file needs to be updated in order to properly publish ARIS databases
from ARIS Design/Connect Server to ARIS Publisher Server. For an installation sizing m the file web.xml can be found in

C:\SoftwareAG\ARIS9.8\server\bin\work\work_abs_m\base\webapps\abs\WEB-INF\web.xml

Search for remoting.DispatcherServlet and add ONLY the highlighted block <init-param>...</init-param> right before the closing tag </servlet>:

<servlet-class>com.idsscheer.remoting.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
<init-param>
   <param-name>allowedClasses</param-name>
   <param-value>com.aris.modeling.common.serverremoteapi.,com.aris.modeling.common.,java.
util.,com.idsscheer.remoting.,com.aris.licensing.types.,com.idsscheer.graphlayout.,com.
idsscheer.aris.methodology.,com.idsscheer.simulationserver.api.,com.idsscheer.
simulationserver.datatypes.,java.io.File</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>

Regards, Martin

Hi Bernard,

Are you getting some error when you try to use Https? Did you upload some client certificated to java ?

If you have some error, send the screenshots here.
Also I can say to you to check the 'administration_guide' and see the topic "8.3 HTTPS connection fails (SSL)", there are some error messages and steps to fix.

BR

AO