Stopping or Pausing OLAP Services

Warn users of service disruption

Pausing a service simply suspends any open sessions, but stopping a service does disconnect them. Users will appreciate your use of a system messaging facility to forewarn them of a system shutdown so that they can save their work.

Procedure: Stopping or pausing OLAP Services

Follow these steps to stop or pause an instance of OLAP Services:

1. Open Instance Manager by taking the steps listed in "Procedure: Opening Instance Manager".

2. Click the plus sign (+) to the left of the OLAP service that you want to start.

   A tree of options expands under the service name.

3. Select Instance.

   You see the State page of the Instance sheet.

4. Select Shutdown Normal, Shutdown Abort, or Pause, then choose Apply.

   Instance Manager will change the state of the selected OLAP service.

   For a description of these options, choose Help.

Related information

For information about stopping an OLAP service, search Instance Manager Help for the following topics:

"Customizing OLAP Service Termination"

"Stopping a Service"

To learn about performing these tasks in a command-line or batch mode, refer to "Command-line Administration". In OLAP Service Manager, get help on the following commands: listservices, pause, stop, status.