Managing the Service Environment

Components of the service environment

OLAP Services runs within a service environment. Before you can run any of the administrative tools for OLAP Services, you must initialize its service environment.

This service environment consists of the following components:

• OLAP Services Agent consists of several processes that run continuously in the background to provide the service environment within which OLAP Services runs. You can configure OLAP Services Agent, as described in "Configuring OLAP Services Agent".

• A local repository stores configuration information about all local instances of OLAP Services, as described in "Changing the Configuration Settings". Implemented as a file named olap.key.

• The olap script starts and stops OLAP Services Agent and OLAP Services.

Procedure: Starting and stopping the service environment

To initialize the service environment, follow these steps:

1. Log in as the installation user and go to the bin subdirectory of $ORACLE_HOME.

2. To initialize the service environment, type ./olap start .

   or

   To stop the service environment, type ./olap stop.

   Notes: To confirm that all associated processes are stopped, issue commands such as these:

   ps -ef | grep xs
   ps -ef | grep os
   

   In the olap script, start is the default parameter and thus is optional.