Thanks for that - that's much clearer. Cheers
Richard. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Webster Sent: 13 April 2005 13:31 To: salive@woodstone.nu Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive Service I think of the service as the program that does the actual checking and the application (also called the GUI) as a tool for creating/editing the configuration of checks, alerts etc. used by the service. With the service stopped, run the application and setup your checks and alerts. If you do checks that require authentication, e.g. services, put the credentials required in the checks themselves. Use the format domain\username for windows checks. Save the host file and exit the application. Set the service to run as SYSTEM with desktop interaction. Start the service. It will start a "copy" of the application that can be used while the service is running to review information, check status of items, etc., but not to edit using this copy of the GUI. If you want to make changes, stop the service, run the application, make the changes, save and exit the app, and re-start the service. Hope this helps. David PS make sure you are not doing this from a terminal services session. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gibson, Richard (IHG) Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:05 AM To: Servers Alive Support List (salive@woodstone.nu) Subject: [SA-list] Servers Alive Service Could someone please explain how SA the Service works with SA the Application. Are they one and the same thing, with just the service running all the time whether the server is logged on or not, and the application providing the interface to add and remove checks? Or are they separate entities, as one can be run without the other. Do they use the same setup, config and host files? The reason I ask is that I am currently setting up SA 5.0 and have seen a couple of anomalies when running both the service and the application at the same time - I update the setup in the application interface, then when I restart the service I lose the updates. The HTML status summary seems to have stopped updating since I last restarted the service, and they initially appeared to be using different credentials for connecting to services, until I set the service to start using the domain credentials. Thanks in advance. Richard Gibson To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
