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Product:
Planning Analytics 2.0.4 (TM1)
Microsoft Windows 2016 server

Problem:
TM1 Architect is connecting the TM1 applications on the wrong network card on the Microsoft Windows server.

Possible solution:
The default network card with the lowest metric value is selected from all network cards to be the default network card. Use Get-NetIPInterface to see metrics.

Start Powershell on the Windows server
Enter: Get-NetIPInterface
This will list the network interfaces on the server.
Check the value for ifIndex and InterfaceMetric (A low value indicates a higher priority.)
The card with lowest value for InterfaceMetric will be used by TM1.
Is this the correct one? or is it for a backup network?

ifIndex InterfaceAlias AddressFamily NlMtu(Bytes) InterfaceMetric Dhcp ConnectionState PolicyStore
——- ————– ————- ———— ————— —- ————— ———–
18 Ethernet 2 IPv6 2800 20 Enabled Connected ActiveStore
1 Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1 IPv6 4294967295 50 Disabled Connected ActiveStore
18 Ethernet 2 IPv4 2800 20 Disabled Connected ActiveStore
12 Ethernet IPv4 1500 10 Enabled Connected ActiveStore
1 Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1 IPv4 4294967295 50 Disabled Connected ActiveStore

Change with Set-NetIPInterface, for example:
Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex -InterfaceMetric
Example
Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex 12 -InterfaceMetric 50
Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex 18 -InterfaceMetric 10
Above will make card 18 to be the new default.
Check the ip address of the card by enter IPCONFIG
Ethernet adapter Ethernet 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a8cd:d4c4:120e:3ed1%18
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.62.209
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 25.255.255.254

Start TM1 Architect
Expand an TM1 application
See in the right side the IP address that will be used.

More information:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/network-subsystem/net-sub-interface-metric
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/cb8dac7f-5f04-42b1-8065-a95c946f6ec2/change-network-adapter-priority-order?forum=ws2016