Starting as a service (Windows systems)

A UTM application must be installed and configured as a service as described in section "Installing an application as a service (Windows systems)". You can set the startup type to Automatic when you are doing this so that the service is started every time the computer is booted. If the startup type is set to Manual, then the service must always be started manually.

On Windows, for instance, you start a service as follows:

1. Sign on under a Windows system user ID that has administration privileges.

2. Call up the control panel with Start - Control Panel.

3. Click on System and Security - Administrative Tools and then on Services and highlight the desired UTM service using the right mouse button; the service is always named openUTM servicename. The servicename is assigned when the service is installed.

4. Select the Start command in the context menu. The service is started.

An application started as a service produces the same messages when started and during operation as an application started via utmmain. Default, these messages are written to the following files:

• messages to stdout in the file filebase\utmp.out

• messages to stderr in the file filebase\utmp.err (see also "Error messages at the application start").

The file name depends on the start parameter specified for SYSPROT and whether or not automatic switchover has been specified for the system files (see section "Start parameterfile of the application").

If the application is started as a service and the system account is used (default setting), a number of diagnostic files may be saved in the system directory.