Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

Creating a New Project
Password
Startup Type
Action pane
Note: Try to avoid running the service under Local System. That account has too
much privilege to the file system and too little privilege to run the OPC Client and
Server modules properly. The best alternative is to create a user solely to run IWS
and configure its privileges to fit the needs of your project. For more about this,
see "Configuring User Privileges" below.
The password for the specified user account. This is an optional setting; it is not needed if no
user is specified or if the specified user does not have a password.
How the Windows service will start. The following options are available:
• Automatic: The service will start automatically when the computer starts up.
• Manual: The service can be started manually in the Computer Management console or by
clicking Start, as described below.
• Disabled: The service will be created and then disabled. It cannot run until a user with
Administrator privileges enables it in the Computer Management console.
Start or stop the service. Please note that these buttons are not enabled until the service is
actually created.
Creating a New Service
To create a new service:
1. Next to the Project box, click … to open a standard Windows file browser. Use the browser to find and select
your project file.
2. In the User and Password boxes, type the username and password (if any) for the Windows user account
under which the service will run.
3. Select a Startup Type.
4. Click Apply. The service is created with the specified settings.
After the service has been created, it will appear in the Services console (Start > Control Panel > System and Security
> Administrative Tools > Services) under the name "InduSoft Web Studio". You can use that console to quickly stop
and restart the service, if you do not want to run the IWS development application.
Command-line Utility
You can also configure the service by using the command-line utility, StdSvcInst.exe. It offers a few more
options than the Service Configuration tool described above — such as specifying a name and description for
the service — and it can be used without running the IWS development application. The utility is located in
the Bin folder of your IWS program directory. To run the utility, open a command prompt, navigate to the Bin
folder (C:\Program Files\InduSoft Web Studio v7.1\Bin), and then enter the command with the desired
parameters.
The utility has the following command syntax:
StdSvcInst { -create -app filepath -startup { auto | manual | disabled } -user username
-password password -name displayname -descr description | -start | -stop | -delete }
-create
-app filepath
Creates the Windows service.
Specifies which project file (projectname.app) the service will load and run when it is started.
(This is the same as the Project box in the Service Configuration dialog.) You must include the
complete file path, and it must be enclosed in quotes.
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