If you use a router to distribute requests to IBM 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 an IBM Cognos 8 dispatcher.
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