Login

Before you can send MaxL statements from the MaxL Shell to Essbase Server, you must log in to an Essbase Server session.

Note:

Before logging in to an Essbase Server session, you must start the MaxL Shell (see MaxL Invocation Summary).Or, you can start the MaxL Shell and log in (see -l Flag: Login) at the same time.

Syntax diagram for login.USER-NAMEPASSWORDHOST-NAME

Note:

Login is part of the MaxL Shell grammar, not the MaxL language itself. You can use a login statement in MaxL scripts and the MaxL Shell, but you cannot embed it in Perl.

Example

login admin mypassword on localhost;

Establishes a connection to the Essbase Server for user Admin identified by mypassword.

login admin password on http://myhost:13080:aps/Essbase?clustername=EssbaseCluster1

Establishes a connection to an Essbase failover cluster for user Admin identified by password.