Here’s one that tripped me up today. I was working on a fairly new SharePoint 2013 farm with the search service application setting up some content sources and looking at recent crawls. I wasn’t accessing Central Administration on the server but from a client computer with a fully qualified server name in the CA URL.
When I tried either the “Crawl Health Reports” or the “Query Health Reports” from the Search Service Application manage page, I got an immediate “Invalid URL Argument” error with a Correlation ID. Checking the ULS logs didn’t reveal the error, however I did find it when I went to the Event Viewer. Event 8059 was reported saying that the Alternate Access Mappings for Central Administration had not been configured.
After adding the Alternate Access Mapping for the fully qualified name of Central Administration, I went back and the crawl and health reports worked fine. If you are having a similar issue, you may want to try this.
Originally posted on the Project Leadership blog at http://www.projectleadership.net/blogs_details.php?id=3119 - the original post is no longer available.
