https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/PDF-Report-timeout/m-p/64868#M10302 <P>I have a large dashboard that has 10 different searches on it. This is scheduled to generate a report via the PDF report server each day at 3am. I'm only getting a PDF from 2 out of 10 days. For the ones that fail, I get this error within the email:<BR /> </P><BLOCKQUOTE><BR /> An error occurred while generating a PDF of this report:<BR /> Failed to generate PDF: Appserver failed to dispatch report request to <A href="https://172.16.253.141:8089/services/pdfserver/renderpdf:">https://172.16.253.141:8089/services/pdfserver/renderpdf:</A> Splunkd daemon is not responding: ('The read operation timed out',)<P></P> <P></P></BLOCKQUOTE><P></P> <P>Is it possible that the report is taking too long to render and the server times out? When I view the dashboard in the browser, all the searches finish within 1 minute.</P> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:05:38 GMT MBerikcurtis 2012-02-04T00:05:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/PDF-Report-timeout/m-p/64868#M10302 <P>I have a large dashboard that has 10 different searches on it. This is scheduled to generate a report via the PDF report server each day at 3am. I'm only getting a PDF from 2 out of 10 days. For the ones that fail, I get this error within the email:<BR /> </P><BLOCKQUOTE><BR /> An error occurred while generating a PDF of this report:<BR /> Failed to generate PDF: Appserver failed to dispatch report request to <A href="https://172.16.253.141:8089/services/pdfserver/renderpdf:">https://172.16.253.141:8089/services/pdfserver/renderpdf:</A> Splunkd daemon is not responding: ('The read operation timed out',)<P></P> <P></P></BLOCKQUOTE><P></P> <P>Is it possible that the report is taking too long to render and the server times out? When I view the dashboard in the browser, all the searches finish within 1 minute.</P> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:05:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/PDF-Report-timeout/m-p/64868#M10302 MBerikcurtis 2012-02-04T00:05:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/PDF-Report-timeout/m-p/64869#M10303 <P>Did you already try increasing the timeout? Try </P> <PRE><CODE>[settings] firefox_timeout = 400 </CODE></PRE> <P>in pdf_server.conf on the server.</P> <P>Here's a doc link for troubleshooting the PDF Server app: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Troubleshooting/PDFTS">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Troubleshooting/PDFTS</A></P> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:20:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/PDF-Report-timeout/m-p/64869#M10303 jlaw 2012-02-10T18:20:16Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/PDF-Report-timeout/m-p/64870#M10304 <P>This worked for me.</P> <P><A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/39685/pdfserver-the-read-operation-timed-out-on-dashboard-rendering">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/39685/pdfserver-the-read-operation-timed-out-on-dashboard-rendering</A></P> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:25:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/PDF-Report-timeout/m-p/64870#M10304 conner9 2012-04-12T16:25:06Z