Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for Windows
Starting ProService
Follow these steps to access the ProControl Utility and start ProService:
- Access the ProControl utility by double-clicking the ProControl icon in the Control Panel, or by double-clicking the ProControl icon in the Progress program group. The ProControl icon looks like this:
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Alternatively, you can access ProControl by typing the following command at the command line:
The ProControl main window appears:
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- Select the Windows NT host machine where you want to run ProService by typing the name of the host in the Host field, or by selecting the ... button and choosing a host from the list displayed by the Select Computer dialog box.
- Choose Start.
ProControl displays information in the message area about the status of ProService. In addition, if animation is turned on, the gears on the ProControl Main Window will turn. (You can control animation through the ProControl Options folder.) The message area will indicate that ProService is active:
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NOTES
- The Progress NT Server stores server-specific environment information in the NT registry. Each time you use ProControl to perform an Insert, Copy, or Remove operation within one of the ProControl folders, ProControl updates the appropriate subkey of the PSC subkey of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Note that when you use ProControl to perform a remove operation, ProControl removes the registry entries, but does not delete the files from the system.
- When you insert a database entry using the Databases folder, ProControl adds the name of the database (and other information) to the Databases subkey of the PSC subkey of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key. If you then set an environment variable using the Databases Environment folder, ProControl adds that environment variable to the Databases subkey.
- If you do not use ProControl to insert Databases, DataServers, Environment variables, and Other Tasks, the registry is never updated and these processes do not run as NT services. Similarly, if you use some other means to update the registry, Progress cannot guarantee that the product will function properly.
- You manage access to the ProControl utility through the ProControl Access Group field (available through the ProControl Options folder). By default at installation, the ProControl Access Group field is set to the NT group called Everyone.
- You can specify access rights to shared memory for specific databases, DataServers, and tasks by setting the ACCESS environment variable within the Environment folder for that specific object, or globally for the ProService environment through the ProControl Environment folder. See the "Shared Memory" section in "Administration Utilities," for more information on shared memory.
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