Drain users from an AOS – AX 2012

Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

This topic describes how to close client sessions that are connected to an instance of Application Object Server (AOS) for Microsoft Dynamics AX. When you close client sessions without force, you are said to drain users. Administrators drain users from an AOS instance before they perform maintenance on the server or take it offline.

 

Important

The following procedure requires that you click the Reject new clients button in Microsoft Dynamics AX. After you click this button, you must not close your client. If you close your client before you click the Accept new clients button, you cannot open a new client session unless you restart the AOS instance by using the Windows Services Management console, or unless you reset Status of the SysServerSessions table in Microsoft SQL Server  to a value of 1.

 

1. Click System administration > Common > Users > Online users.

2. On the Server instances tab, select the AOS instance that you want to perform maintenance on.

3. Click Reject new clients.

4. When you are prompted, click OK to stop the AOS instance from accepting new client connections.

   After 5 minutes, all users receive a message informing them that they must save their work, because the administrator is shutting down the AOS instance. No new client connections are accepted during this time. The server forces client sessions to close after they have been idle for 2 minutes. Client sessions for administrators are never closed. When the number of clients that are connected to the AOS instance is displayed as 0 (zero), you can perform maintenance on the server.

5. After you have finished performing maintenance on the server, click Accept new clients or restart the AOS instance.