It is best practice to set all Oracle EPM Windows services to manual. In most situations maintenance on the Windows servers is performed scheduled and unattended. That means e.g. when installing Windows patches, the servers might be rebooted at any time in any order. In most cases the shutdown is forced. That means all running processes that do not end within a specified time, are killed. In my experience this can damage the Oracle EPM installation. Hence my recommendation. When you perform as many installations as I do, you start to appreciate some automation of certain tasks during installation and configuration.
Below a simple, but effective PowerShell script that finds and disables all Oracle EPM Windows Services. Only works on EPM 11.1.2.2.0 and up.
Below a simple, but effective PowerShell script that finds and disables all Oracle EPM Windows Services. Only works on EPM 11.1.2.2.0 and up.