Running members as Windows services

You can run members of a node as Windows services.

If you are running B2B Advanced Communications on Windows 2008, you can run any of the members of a node as a Windows service. Running members as Windows services has the following benefits:

• The operating system starts the services when the operating system starts.
• The user can manually stop and restart the services in the same way that they can stop and restart other Windows services.
• The service continues running after a user logs off and the host server continues to run.

  When a user logs off from a session in which they used the member start command to start a member, the member stops running.

Use the member start_service command to install and start Windows services. If you use the member start_service command, you cannot use the member start command.

After you start B2B Advanced Communications by using the member start_service command, you can stop and restart the application by using the Windows services controller.

When you run the member start_service command, you also start the heartbeat process, which is used by the member Windows services.

When you run the services.msc command to view Windows services, the services that are related to B2B Advanced Communications use the following service display names and service names: