Starting and Stopping Essbase Using OPMN

Components that are managed by OPMN should never be started or stopped manually. Use the opmnctl command line utility to start and stop system components.

Note:

If you attempt to use MaxL to shut down an Essbase instance that was started using OPMN, you are warned to use OPMN to shut down Essbase.

In a Windows environment, before you launch Essbase, change the OPMN service (Oracle Process Manager (instanceName)) to start as a named user so that the shared network files are accessible.

Use these commands to start, stop, and monitor Essbase from OPMN:

where EssbaseInstanceName is one of the following:

Note that the Essbase Server start and stop scripts redirect to OPMN. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide.

For more information on OPMN commands, see the Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server Administrator's Guide.

For troubleshooting and logging information, see Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Troubleshooting Guide.