Restarting OBIEE Quickly.

This is a fast and dirty method  .  Used to restart the BI Server = nqsserver

Relies on the fact that OPMN will start it up again immediately.


effectively  : get nqsserver pid and feed it to kill -9


Much faster than doing it through the console.

OS : Linux x86-64 RHEL5


ps -ef|grep obidev|grep nqsserver|grep -v grep|awk '{ print $2}'|xargs kill -9

replace obidev and nqsserver as appropriate with the owner name and process name - e.g. if bouncing Presentation Services