An application service in an Informatica domain that runs the Metadata Manager application and manages connections between the Metadata Manager components. Create and configure the Metadata Manager Service in Informatica Administrator. The Metadata Manager Service manages the configuration information for Metadata Manager, including application properties and PowerCenter Integration Service, PowerCenter Repository Service, and Metadata Manager repository configuration information.
Start and stop the Metadata Manager application by enabling and disabling the Metadata Manager Service in Informatica Administrator. When you enable a Metadata Manager Service, the Service Manager on the node where the Metadata Manager Service runs starts the Metadata Manager application.