Processing Your Data: Intelligence Server

Intelligence Server is the second tier in the MicroStrategy system. Intelligence Server must be running for users to get information from the data warehouse using MicroStrategy clients, such as MicroStrategy Web or Developer.

Intelligence Server is the heart of the MicroStrategy system. It executes reports stored in the metadata against the data warehouse and passes the results of the reports to users. For detailed information about Intelligence Server, including how to start and stop it, see Managing Intelligence Server.

A server definition is an instance of Intelligence Server and its configuration settings. Multiple server definitions can be stored in the metadata, but only one can be run at a time on a machine. If you want multiple machines to point to the same metadata, you should cluster them. For more information about clustering, including instructions on how to cluster Intelligence Servers, see Cluster Multiple MicroStrategy Servers.

Pointing multiple Intelligence Servers to the same metadata without clustering may cause metadata inconsistencies. This configuration is not supported, and MicroStrategy strongly recommends that users not configure their systems in this way.