Windows Services Tips
If you’ve got a Windows ALUI portal, you know the procedure for restarting services: Remote Desktop to the affected system, open the Service Control Manager, and restart. If there are already people using the available Remote Desktop sessions, you can kick them off or use the console session, but if you just want to do a quick restart, there’s an easier way: use the Service Control Manager on your desktop, and just connect to the SCM on the production system (firewall and domain policy rules permitting, of course).
Just start up Service Control Manager (Start: Control Panel: Administrative Tools: Services), and select Action: Connect to another computer:
From there, just enter the name or IP of the system you want to manage (you will probably have to authenticate), and you’ll be able to manage any services on the remote machine:
While we’re on the topic of managing services, you know you can manage services via the command line, right? Just use:
net start|stop <service display name>
The best use of the command line is to create shutdown and startup batch files that can stop or start all ALUI services on the system with one shortcut. For example:
net stop Apache2
net stop “Apache Tomcat”
net stop “BEA ALI API Service”
net stop “BEA ALI Content Upload Service”
net stop “BEA ALI Logger”
