Environment
Retain 4.x
Outlook plugin
Situation
When attempting to log into Retain from the Outlook Plugin, it results in an error: "Retain Server cannot be reached"
Resolution
Things to check:
1. The RetainWebUI log file shows:
15:59:05, 787[ajp-nio-48009-exec-6] [DEBUG] LoginController: Validating User : <username>
15:59:05, 788[ajp-nio-48009-exec-6] [DEBUG] RetainUIRestAPI: Getting User Account
15:59:10, 802[ajp-nio-48009-exec-6] [ERROR] RetainUIRestAPI: Unable to execute request and retrieve response.
2. This also fails when attempting to login using a web browser at http://<hostname>/RetainWebUI/ you are redirected to https://<hostname>/RetainWebUI/
3. When you check the ../Beginfinite/Retain/RetainWebUI/WEB-INF/sfg/RSConfig.cfg file you find it is not set to SSL:
4. Browsing to the RetainWebUI address with the IPAddress of the Retain server http://<IPAddress>/RetainWebUI/ is successful.
These indicate a DNS or Web server security issue not a Retain issue.
<rsConfig>
<hostName>[RetainServer-host-name]</hostName>
<serverPort>48080</serverPort>
<serverSecurity>none</serverSecurity>
<serverBase>/RetainServer</serverBase>
</rsConfig>
4. Browsing to the RetainWebUI address with the IPAddress of the Retain server http://<IPAddress>/RetainWebUI/ is successful.
These indicate a DNS or Web server security issue not a Retain issue.
Things to try:
1. Flush the DNS cache of the workstation: “ipconfig /flushdns”
2. There may be an SSL mis-configuration. Check the URL with an SSL checker such as:
https://cryptoreport.rapidssl.com/checker/
https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html
https://cryptoreport.rapidssl.com/checker/
https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html