Product Operation: Windows Service Usage

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# Product Operation: Windows Service Usage

This document covers the following topics:

- Accessing Windows Services Control Panel

- Starting the Server

- Querying the Status of a Server

- Stopping the Server

- Windows Event Logging

## Accessing Windows Services Control Panel

The Entire System Server for Windows is designed as a Windows service. It can be started and controlled by the Windows services control panel.

To access the Windows services control panel

1. Invoke My Computer > Control Panel > Services

   German: Arbeitsplatz > Systemsteuerung > Dienste

   The installation program creates the Windows Services Entire System Server (standard)

## Starting the Server

To change the service definition to "automatic"

1. Set "Startup" to "automatic".

   Then Entire System Server will be started automatically during system startup.

   Otherwise, the service must be started manually from the Windows services control panel.

   The Entire Net-work Service must be running so Entire System Server can establish the communication to EntireX Broker.

## Querying the Status of a Server

Use the Windows services control panel and check whether its status is "Started" (German: "Gestartet").

You can get additional information by viewing the Entire System Server log file in the directory %ProgramData%\Software AG\Entire System Server\log.

## Stopping the Server

The server is stopped implicitly during a system shutdown. You may stop the server implicitly at any time by using the Windows services control panel.

It may take some time until the server has finished the current actions. This amount of time is delimited by the value of `ETB_Wait` in the <npr identifier> entry in the file npr.ini.

## Windows Event Logging

Entire System Server for Windows writes Event Logging entries.

To invoke Windows Event Logging

1. Invoke Start > Programs > Administrative Tools (Common) >Event Viewer

2. Select Log > Application

   German: Protokoll > Anwendung.

   You will find the Entire System Server entries with the source names NPR.

3. Double-click on these entries to read their contents.

### On this page

- Accessing Windows Services Control Panel
- Starting the Server
- Querying the Status of a Server
- Stopping the Server
- Windows Event Logging