Installing and running an instance as a Windows service
To install a Progress Application Server (PAS) instance as a Windows service, you must have administrator privileges. On systems with User Account Control (UAC), you must disable UAC as well.
A service (called a daemon process on UNIX systems) is an application without a user interface that runs in the background and provides core operating system functionality. Web servers like PAS and Tomcat typically run as Windows services or UNIX daemons.
Note: If you run a PAS instance with the TCMAN start action, the instance runs in the context of the command shell process. It is not available as a system service that can handle external client requests. The instance must be registered as a Window service before you can start it as a service.
This is a summary of how to register and run a PAS instance as a Windows service:
1. Open a command prompt window.
2. Navigate to the core PAS /bin directory ($CATALINA_HOME/bin).
3. Run the TCMAN service action specifying an instance name and the register parameter . For example:
tcman service oepas1 register
where oepas1 is the name of the default instance created when you installed PAS for OpenEdge.
4. Run the TCMAN service action specifying an instance name and the start parameter. For example:
tcman service oepas1 start
Note: You can also use the TCMAN service action to check the running status, stop, and unregister a PAS for OpenEdge instance as a Windows service. You can also use the Windows Microsoft Management Console (MMC) or the sc config command to start, stop, and check the status of a service.
