How easy see version of Content Manager?

Product:
Cognos BI 10.2.2
Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Server

Question:
How to easy see if Content manager is up?

Solution:
Enter this in Internet Explorer
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet
Change to localhost to your BI server name.

You get a text similar to this:

IBM Cognos Content Manager

IBM Cognos

Content Manager

Build: 10.2.6105.4
Start time: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 9:11:15 PM CET
Current time: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 9:21:28 PM CET
State: Running

More url you can use for testing:
# Get Dispatcher version
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/gc

# Determine if Content Manager is running
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet

# Determine if Dispatcher (“pogo”) is alive
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=/dbg

# View installed components
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=cmplst

# Memory utilization
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=/diagnostics

# Environment
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/env

# Get load balancing statistics. Can also use this to verify the configuration of an install.
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/p2plbDiag

# Pin requests for load balanced services to a specific Dispatcher (need to be logged in first)
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/pin

# See if the Certificate Server is responding
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/autoCAService

# Give some info if service is up — but that is easier to find with other command.
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/testping

This is what you get with testping:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/” xmlns:bus=”http://developer.cognos.com/schemas/bibus/3/” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xmlns:SOAP-ENC=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/” xmlns:SOAP-ENV=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”><SOAP-ENV:Header><bus:biBusHeader xsi:type=”bus:biBusHeader”><bus:tracking xsi:type=”bus:tracking”/><bus:dispatcherTransportVars xsi:type=”SOAP-ENC:Array” SOAP-ENC:arrayType=”bus:dispatcherTransportVar[]”><item xsi:type=”bus:dispatcherTransportVar”><name xsi:type=”xsd:string”>p2plb_result</name><value xsi:type=”xsd:string”>ok</value></item><item xsi:type=”bus:dispatcherTransportVar”><name xsi:type=”xsd:string”>p2plb_messagetimes</name><value xsi:type=”xsd:string”>1478636020024,1478636020024,1478636020024,0</value></item></bus:dispatcherTransportVars></bus:biBusHeader></SOAP-ENV:Header><SOAP-ENV:Body><l:p2plbPingResponse status=”ok” xmlns:l=”http://developer.cognos.com/schemas/p2pd/lb/1/”/></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

# XML Parser Information
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/xts.diag

# Determine if the SDK is installed by having the Dispatcher access the SDK WSDL file
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?wsdl

# About IBM Cognos Connection
http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/about.xts

 

More information:

http://www.cogknowhow.com/index.php/knowledge-articles/36-tools/105-jvm-memory-utilization

https://community.watsonanalytics.com/discussions/questions/23687/what-diagnostic-urls-are-available-with-cognos-ana.html