Progress
Database Administration
Guide and Reference
ProControl Utility
A tool with a graphical user interface supplied with the Progress NT Server. The Progress NT Server permits Progress processes to run as registered NT services.
ProControl lets you perform the following tasks on a local or remote NT host:
NOTE: Using ProControl to perform these tasks ensures that Progress processes run as registered NT services. All of these tasks result in changes to the registry.SYNTAX
From the Control Panel or the Progress Program Group, double-click the ProControl icon. The ProControl icon looks like this:
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When you start the utility the main ProControl window appears, as shown in Figure 19–2.
Figure 19–2: ProControl Main Window
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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, it 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.
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