iceboxnet as windows service
luke
Member Lukasz CzekierdaOrganization: AGH-University of Science and TechnologyProject: teleconsultations ✭
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Dear Ice Support Team,
I am considering running my application within a managed environment, i.e. IceBox. The application is written in C# so iceboxnet is the proper service I suppose. Unfortunately I am unable to install it as a Windows service, which is necessary. I would prefer not using IceBox inside IceGrid node in this case.
I have studied the forum and the manual (Windows Services|Manual Installation) but found no answer/help.
I use the demo provided with Ice distribution.
After "sc create icebox1 binPath= "c:\....iceboxnet.exe --Ice.config=c:\....config.service" I got the success but running the service gives (after less than one second):
[SC] StartService FAILED 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
sc qc icebox1 gives:
SERVICE_NAME: icebox1
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 3 DEMAND_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : c:\....iceboxnet.exe --Ice.Config=c:\....config.icebox
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : icebox1
DEPENDENCIES :
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem
Comparing to the documentation the service is run as LocalSystem, not LocalService but this seems not be the problem.
When I disable starting the service in configuration file (IceBox.Service.Hello), error is the same but received after 30 seconds.
The is no debug/diagnostic information available so I do not know how to run the application...
Thanks in advance, regards,
Łukasz
I am considering running my application within a managed environment, i.e. IceBox. The application is written in C# so iceboxnet is the proper service I suppose. Unfortunately I am unable to install it as a Windows service, which is necessary. I would prefer not using IceBox inside IceGrid node in this case.
I have studied the forum and the manual (Windows Services|Manual Installation) but found no answer/help.
I use the demo provided with Ice distribution.
After "sc create icebox1 binPath= "c:\....iceboxnet.exe --Ice.config=c:\....config.service" I got the success but running the service gives (after less than one second):
[SC] StartService FAILED 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
sc qc icebox1 gives:
SERVICE_NAME: icebox1
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 3 DEMAND_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : c:\....iceboxnet.exe --Ice.Config=c:\....config.icebox
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : icebox1
DEPENDENCIES :
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem
Comparing to the documentation the service is run as LocalSystem, not LocalService but this seems not be the problem.
When I disable starting the service in configuration file (IceBox.Service.Hello), error is the same but received after 30 seconds.
The is no debug/diagnostic information available so I do not know how to run the application...
Thanks in advance, regards,
Łukasz
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The IceBox .NET implementation doesn't support being run as a Windows service. With .NET, we recommend implementing your services using the System.ServiceProcess API instead if you want to run them as Windows services.
Cheers,
Benoit.
Good to know! Thanks.
I know that I can transform my Ice application into windows service but IceBox gives me much more - remote monitoring and management of services via IceBox.ServiceObserver and IceBox.ServiceManager interfaces.
Any other option to reach my goal?
Regards,
Łukasz
Sorry, I can't think of any other simple solutions (other than using IceGrid).
Cheers,
Benoit.
I understand that icebox based monitoring is nice but on the other hand there is are nice built-in functions in Windows for remotely managing Windows services. A bit more coarse grained but - in least in my case - they should work just as fine as IceBox.ServiceManager.
btw, just a little side note: What I found to be useful for .net based services is this:
Run Windows Service as a console program
this allows easy trying and testing of your services.
Stephan