FOTOWEB 6.0 Reference Manual - FotoWare

other user requests. The Workflow service picks up the request in the background and processes it in its
own pace.
This separation is created to allow processing of ‘heavy’ workflow requests in the background without
affecting the performance of FotoWeb Server.
FotoWeb Service Engine
The FotoWeb Service Engine consists of several sub services that continuously perform different tasks in
background. The sub services started by the Service Engine are as follows:
System log service
This service is responsible of handling all status events posted by FotoWeb modules and writing them to
their designated locations such as FotoWeb system log, FotoWare log server and Windows Event log.
Event log service
This service is responsible of handling all activity events posted by FotoWeb modules and writing them
to their designated locations and formats such as FotoWeb log files and FotoWeb database. The events
handled by this services are those defined in Site | Properties | Activity logging.
Mail service
This service is responsible of processing email requests made by different FotoWeb modules.
Task scheduler
This service is responsible of executing and processing different tasks defined in FotoWeb such as cache
cleanup, keyword extraction, log flushing etc at their scheduled times.
Crash report handler
This is an on-demand sub service that is automatically started whenever a crash has occurred in any of
‘exe’ based FotoWeb modules. The service collects the required information about the crash, creates
XML files describing the crash and compresses these files into a final ZIP file along with the ‘mini dump’
written by the crashing module. Finally, the service sends email notifications (if enabled) and uploads the
crash report to FotoWare (if enabled, requires unique system id from FotoWare). If the crash report is
successfully uploaded, it is then deleted from the system. A maximum of 20 newest (not uploaded) crash
reports are kept on the disk to minimize disk usage, while the oldest ones are deleted automatically.
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