USER MANUALS

Configure Windows Services

The installer of the Denodo Platform for Windows creates Windows services for some of its components: Virtual DataPort server, Scheduler server, etc.

By default, new Windows services are configured to:

  • Start manually.

  • Run under the predefined “local system user account”.

We recommend configuring the Windows services of Denodo you are going to use to:

  1. Setting the Startup type to Automatic. That way, if the host is restarted, Windows will start the Denodo services automatically.

  2. Changing the account under which the Denodo services run, to be the same account used to launch the Denodo Control Center.

    This user account needs full privileges over the folder and subfolders where the Denodo Platform is installed. The reason is that if first, you launch a Denodo server using the Control Center and later, you launch it as a Windows service, the Denodo server may not be able to modify the files created by the Denodo server when it was launched from the Control Center.

To configure a Windows service this way, follow these steps:

  1. Press the keys Windows logo+R to open the “Run” dialog.

  2. Enter services.msc to open the Window services configuration tool.

  3. Search for a Denodo service, right-click on it (all of them start with word “Denodo”) and click Properties.

  4. In the tab General, in the box Startup type, select Automatic.

  5. Click the Log on tab.

  6. Select This account, enter the user name of the user that will be used to run the Denodo Control Center and enter its password.

  7. Repeat steps 3 to 6 to configure the other Windows services of Denodo.

Important

If Denodo is installed on Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 or newer, do not configure the Browser Pool component as a Windows service. That is because in these versions, Microsoft Internet Explorer does not use the configuration of the user starting the Windows service so it will start with an incorrect configuration.

To automate the launch of the Browser Pool, read the article Automating status check and startup of Denodo processes of the Knowledge Base. It contains a script to automate this task.

Installing the Denodo Web Applications as Windows Services

By default, the Denodo web applications have to be started manually (Data Catalog, Scheduler administration tool, etc.). If the Denodo servers run on Windows, consider creating a Windows service for each applications. To do this, do the following:

  1. Start a command prompt as an administrator and execute the following:

cd <DENODO_HOME>
cd bin

REM To install the "Aracne administration tool" as a Windows service
arn_webadmintool_service.bat install

REM To install the "Diagnostic & Monitoring tool" as a Windows service
diagnosticmonitoringtool_service.bat install

REM To install the "Information Self Service tool" as a Windows service
selfinformationadmintool_service.bat install

REM To install the "ITPilot administration tool" as a Windows service
itpilot_webadmintool_service.bat install

REM To install the "Scheduler administration tool" as a Windows service
scheduler_webadmintool_service.bat install

  1. Press the keys Windows logo+R to open the “Run” dialog.

  2. Enter services.msc to open the Window services configuration tool.

  3. Configure each new Windows service following the steps of the section above.

To remove the Windows service of one of these applications, execute the same script but with the parameter remove instead of install.

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