Installing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Configuring PerformancePoint Services : Configuring PPS (part 2)

Creating the Service Application

You are now ready to complete the final steps for your PerformancePoint installation. You must complete four tasks:

• Start the PerformancePoint Service.
  
  
• Create the PerformancePoint service application.
  
  
• Set the Unattended Service Account.
  
  
• Associate the service application proxy with a proxy group.
  
  

These tasks may be performed in any order. Depending on your installation type, some of these tasks may not be required. If you selected to perform a server farm installation and bypassed the Configuration Wizard or cleared the PerformancePoint Service check box in the Configuration Wizard, you need to create the PerformancePoint Monitoring service application manually.

Best practice is to verify these tasks regardless of the type of installation you performed. This can help to give you both peace of mind and ensure smooth functioning of the PerformancePoint Monitoring service application.

After you perform or verify these tasks, you are ready to launch the Dashboard Designer and create your first dashboard.

Starting the PerformancePoint Service

The PerformancePoint Service is the web service that all requests go through. This service needs to be started on at least one application server in the farm. Any server that has this service started will be servicing requests and conceptually “running” PPS.

The PPS Service needs to run on at least a single application server in the server farm. Although you may choose to run it on multiple application servers in the farm, this is not necessary. Requests are load balanced equally by a round-robin distribution between all instances of the service that are running. This is a good way to help control the load and avoid performance issues.

To start the PerformancePoint Service, follow these steps:

1.	Browse to the SharePoint Central Administration site, and then click the System Settings tab in the navigation pane on the left.
2.	From this page, click the Manage Servers in This Farm link available below the Servers option.
3.	From the list of servers in the farm, click the name of the server where you want to start the service application.
4.	Scroll and find PerformancePoint Service in the list of available services, and then click Start from the Action column. The status changes from Stopped to Started (see Figure 4). Figure 4. The status changes from Stopped to Started.

This completes the first of the four tasks you must perform.