Accessing Analytics Engine
Startup and Shutdown
To start and stop a Analytics Engine instance--whether it be a client or server instance--use the ingstart and ingstop commands, respectively.
To start the Analytics Engine instance
Log on to your system through the system administrator account for the instance.
Enter the following command:
ingstart
The ingstart command checks whether you have sufficient operating system resources to run the product components. If so, ingstart starts all servers that are part of your instance.
To stop the Analytics Engine instance
Enter the following command:
ingstop
The instance is stopped.
Start Analytics Engine as a Service (Linux)
During installation with RPM, a systemd service is generated that can be used to start and stop the Analytics Engine instance as a service.
If you did not install using RPM or installed using the ingbuild distribution, then you first need to create and install the systemd service.
To create and install the service file
Issue the following commands:
mksystemd -s rdbms
mksystemd -i -s rdbms
You may be prompted for your user password, or root password, to become root to complete the install.
The generated script to start Analytics Engine for Linux as a service is installed under /usr/lib/systemd/ system, /lib/systemd/system, or /etc/systemd/system. The service is named actian-analyticsengineXX, where XX is the instance ID, the value for II_INSTALLATION, specified during installation (default is VW).
To start the Analytics Engine instance as a service
Run the following as root:
% systemctl start actian-analyticsengineXX
where XX is the instance ID.
To stop and restart the service
Use the following commands:
% systemctl stop actian-analyticsengineXX
% systemctl restart actian-analyticsengineXX
where XX is the instance ID.
Start Analytics Engine as a Service (Windows)
Note: Analytics Engine for Windows should always be started as a service.
You can start Analytics Engine as a service from either the command prompt or Actian Service Manager.
To start Analytics Engine as a service from the command prompt
Enter the following command at the Actian Administrative Command Prompt:
ingstart -service
The instance is started.
To start and stop Analytics Engine using Actian Director
1. Right-click the installation node in the Instance Explorer.
2. Select Start as an instance on the context menu.
The Start dialog appears. The instance starts, displaying progress in the dialog.
3. Click Close to close the dialog.
To start and stop Analytics Engine using the Actian Service Manager
1. Click Start, All Programs, Actian, Analytics Engine XX, Other Utilities, Actian Service Manager.
The Actian Service Manager window appears.
2. Select the Start as a Service check box (selected by default). Select the Client Only check box to start only those components for a client instance. Click Start.
The Analytics Engine instance is started, and the output of the startup operation is displayed in the scrollable list box. The Start button changes to Stop.
3. Click Stop.
The instance is stopped.
Command Prompt Shortcuts
Both the Administrator and non-administrator Command Prompt shortcuts in Analytics Engine for Windows open in the %HOMEPATH% directory (typically C:\Users\username) where the user has full privileges to create files. Files are available to the current user only.
Last modified date: 09/11/2026