Issue: We noticed
today that the Excel calculation services were not running and we were receiving an
error as
“An error has occurred. Please
contact your system administrator if this problem persists."
The SCOM were throwing too many
errors as
Alert: Error communicating with
Excel Calculation Services
Source: spmwprodweb2
Path: spmwprodweb2.nam.nsroot.net
Last modified time: Alert
description: Event ID 5240 from Source Office SharePoint Server on agent
computer spmwprodweb2.nam.nsroot.net has triggered this Alert Description:
There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services
There were no application logs in
the event viewer related to these errors.
STEPS Performed to correct the issue:
1. Stopped and
started the Excel calculation service.
2. Ran stsadm
–o execadmsvcjobs
Resolution:
We had to switch the service role to
another server so service was stopped at One Application server and Started on
another Application server.
If you have
any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let
me know.
I would be
more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.