If you use a router to distribute requests to Cognos 8 dispatchers, and the router can test the availability of a server using a test URL, you can configure the router to test the availability of a Cognos 8 dispatcher.
To test the availability of a dispatcher, do the following:
Configure the router to use a URL with the path /p2pd/servlet/ping.
If the dispatcher is not ready, the following response is returned:
503 Service Unavailable
If the dispatcher is ready, the following response is returned:
200 OK