After I was able to fix the Management Reporter 2012 Process Service the next step was to reset the data mart. In some certain cases you need to do that to make Financial Reporting deliver the correct data again – one of them and probably the most likely is when you restored a database backup. For some that might be obvious because Management Reporter integrates data incrementally.
I was looking forward to Update 1 (aka the May Update) because in the list of new things that come with it there was the possibility to reset the data mart. Also I found a blog entry, Resetting the Management Reporter data mart, which is quite new but doesn’t relate to the new Microsoft Dynamics AX. Still it indicates the direction to be followed. There are lots of parameters and if you want to provide them you might find that something must have changed. In AX 2012 usually there were two databases. One for the setup data and one for transactions and stuff. In the newest version there’s only one database. So what to do? It’s easier than I thought!
Stop the Management Reporter 2012 Process Service
Go to the Windows Services and stop the Management Reporter 2012 Process Service first.
Use PowerShell to reset the data mart
If you use a single-machine (and right now actually all of them are) you can use the PowerShell command with reduced parameters. Thankfully the first two are enough, everything else is read from the configuration. So (in case of a downloaded or on-prem .vhd – the .dll’s path might be different on Azure-deployed virtual machines) the two commands you need to execute using PowerShell (run as administrator) are:
Import-Module 'C:\FinancialReporting\Server\Console\Microsoft.Dynamics.Performance.Deployment.Commands.Integration.dll'; Reset-DatamartIntegration -Reason BADDATA -ReasonDetail "Restored database from backup"
After the reset you’ll find the provided reason and its detail message in the event log. Navigate to Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Dynamics > MR-Logger with the Event Viewer application to see it.
Start the service again
Now you want to start the Management Reporter 2012 Process Service again and let it do its work.
Monitor progress
Depending on the size of your data it might take some time for the process to finish the initial filling of the data mart. If you want to see some status you can use SQL Server Management Studio and query the view Connector.MapsWithDetail of the ManagementReporter database. When all entries in column LastRunTime have a value the intial integration should be finished and Financial Reporting available from AX!
Special thanks go to the FR team at Microsoft who helped me a lot with making this work for the first time on my dev box!
