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Hi all,

We desperately need help on our current NAV implementation. The connection to NAV frequently goes offline (for 3 weeks now) and at first a simple reboot would fix it. It has started to stop responding even after a reboot and continues to do this for a long time.

We have had 7 companies (around 20 users) since Nov 1st 2016 with no issues whatsoever. On the 1st Aug 2017 we implemented a new company and added 50 users. It was going fine for 1 week and since then it is continuously dropping out.

Over the weekend we moved it away from the original SQL server 2014 to a brand new SQL server 2014 (and hardware). We even created another server to handle the NAV apps. It was fine all day yesterday with no issues at all but now it's doing the same thing as the original environment. This rules out Hardware/Operating System/SQL.

When this happens, the SQL server management console cannot connect to itself (even via localhost). It can't be a network issue because none of the other servers / devices in the network have any issues (exchange, file server, AD etc). Sometimes, while NAV is not responding, we can still run Jet Reports. 

Nothing shows up in the SQL logs or Windows Events when this happens it simply halts and all RTC's hang.

We have had engineers and consultants look at the problem but they are stumped.

I personally think it could be something in the new company data or MOD or something? We stopped all workflows, job queues etc to see if they were the cause but no luck. Can't understand how any problem like this can halt the entire SQL server.

Any suggestions ?

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  • Rashed Profile Picture
    Rashed 3,765 on at
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    Hello. 

    On what version of NAV 2016 are you?  Have you installed the latest rollup for NAV  2016? 

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    M.Zayed 460 on at
    RE: NAV Offline

    Another Good tip that I can give to you is to deactivate the Cubes (Blue Cubes) on the Role Center Page! This for sure will help!

  • CILGroup Profile Picture
    CILGroup 389 on at
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    This is the think there are no events triggered the engineers can't pin point anything. The RTC clients just hang and then lock up the sql database to the point the sql manager can't connect to the database.

    This company is much bigger than the others with 45 concurrent users doing around 250 sales orders per day. There are many transactions and the item table is over 20,000 records, 7000 customers, 60,000 sales prices etc

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    M.Zayed 460 on at
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    what about Events? did you see which Events are fired?

    we had something like this in our Navision and this was due to some events that we created. Check the Events CU and see if there are some events from your side?

    How big is the data in this new company compared to the other companies that you have?

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