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About Essbase Administration Services


Essbase Administration Services is the cross-platform administration tool for Essbase Analytic Services, replacing Application Manager. Administration Services consists of a Java middle-tier server, called Administration Server, and a Java client console, called Administration Services Console.

Administration Services Console is the graphical user interface that enables administrators to manage the Analytic Services environment from a single navigation tree, called Enterprise View. The console provides wizards, editors, and other tools to help administrators view, manage, and maintain a unique set of Essbase Analytic Servers. The console includes a data preview grid that enables you to preview data without having to switch from the console to another program.

Essbase Administration Services provides its own set of documentation, including an installation guide, a context-sensitive online help system, a developer's guide, a Java API Reference, and a readme. To view documentation, first start Administration Server and then launch the Essbase Administration Services Information Map (eas\doc_launcher.htm under the Essbase Administration Services installation directory).

For information about release compatibility, platform support and system requirements, and installation instructions, see Essbase Administration Services Installation Guide. For procedural instructions for using Administration Services to manage Essbase, see Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

Administration Services Architecture

Administration Services works with Analytic Servers in a three-tiered system that consists of a client user interface, a middle-tier server, and one or more Analytic Servers. The middle tier coordinates interactions and resources between the user interface and Analytic Servers. The three tiers may or may not be on the same computer or platform. The three tiers include the following components, as illustrated below:

Figure 45: Administration Services Architecture

Note: For information about which platforms are supported for the client and middle tier components, see Essbase Administration Services Installation Guide.

Deploying Administration Services

Administration Services can be deployed in a variety of scenarios. For example, you can install Analytic Server on a computer running UNIX and install Administration Server and Administration Services Console on a computer running Windows. You can also install Administration Server and Administration Services Console on separate computers and platforms. The middle tier Administration Server also supports the substitution of certain third-party products within the existing framework (for example, application servers and relational databases).

For complete information about deployment scenarios and guidelines, see Essbase Administration Services Installation Guide.

Starting Administration Services

To start Administration Services, first start Administration Server, and then start Administration Services Console. For instructions, see "Starting Administration Services" in Essbase Administration Services Installation Guide.

If you have enabled an Analytic Server for remote start, you can start that Analytic Server remotely from Enterprise View in Administration Services Console. To enable this functionality, you need to configure and start the Remote Start Service on the Analytic Server machine. For instructions, see Starting Analytic Server Remotely from Administration Services Console.

About Administration Services Users

Existing Analytic Services users cannot use Administration Services until they have also been created as users on Administration Server. You can use the User Setup Wizard to step you through the process of creating Administration Server users and associating them with the appropriate Analytic Servers. You do not to create spreadsheet users on the Administration Server.

To create Administration Services users, see "User Setup Wizard" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

Connecting to Administration Services

In Administration Services, connections to individual Analytic Servers are handled by the middle tier Administration Server. When you start Administration Services, you are automatically connected to each Analytic Server you have added to Enterprise View (if Analytic Server is started). For information about how Analytic Server connections are established, see "About Analytic Services Connections and Ports" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

You can connect to different releases of Analytic Server simultaneously from Administration Services Console.

Your Administration Services username and password may be different than your Analytic Server username and password. If you do not know your Administration Services username and password, see your Administration Services administrator for more information.

After your initial connection to Administration Services, you can use the User Setup Wizard to create Administration Services users and add Analytic Servers to each user's Enterprise View. For more information, see "Connecting to Administration Services" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

Adding Administration Servers to Enterprise View

Each time you connect to Administration Services, the Administration Servers you have chosen are displayed in Enterprise View, which is the navigation tree in the left navigation panel. Each user can populate Enterprise View with a unique set of Administration Servers. You can use the following methods to add Analytic Servers to Enterprise View:

To add Administration Servers to Enterprise View, see "Adding Administration Servers to Enterprise View" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

Adding Analytic Servers to Enterprise View

Each time you connect to Administration Services, the Analytic Servers you have chosen are displayed in Enterprise View, which is the navigation tree in the left navigation panel. Each user can populate Enterprise View with a unique set of Analytic Servers. You can use the following methods to add Analytic Servers to Enterprise View:

You can also create custom views of the Enterprise View tree in separate tabs in the navigation panel. For more information, see "About Custom Views" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

To add Analytic Servers to Enterprise View, see "Adding Analytic Servers to Enterprise View" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

About Analytic Server Connections and Ports

The number of ports available for an Analytic Server represents the number of licensed concurrent connections. Analytic Services provides one reserve port for the system administrator. A system administrator uses the reserve port to log out one or more users when all other ports are in use. For more information about Analytic Services ports, see Running Analytic Servers, Applications, and Databases.

In Administration Services, a port is in use only when an Analytic Server connection is established. For information about how connections (ports) are established and released, see "About Analytic Services Connections and Ports" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.

About Administration Server

The middle tier Administration Server provides business logic to support cross-server operations, persistence of user preferences, and access to Analytic Servers. A system administrator creates users on Administration Server, and then Administration Server manages their connections to Analytic Services.

In Enterprise View, the node name for Administration Server is the same as the server computer name.

Administration Server has several configurable communication ports. These ports are different from Analytic Server ports. If one of the default communication ports is in use by another application, you need to specify another port value in order to run Administration Server.

Note: If you change the value for the Administration Server port, you must specify the new port value when you log in to the Administration Services Console.

To change a default port value, see "Specifying Communication Ports for Administration Server" in Essbase Administration Services Online Help.



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