Nssm-2.21.1

NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager Version 2.21.1, 2013-12-03 NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv. It can start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it fails for any reason. NSSM also has a graphical service installer and remover. Full documentation can be found online at http://nssm.cc/ Since version 2.0, the GUI can be bypassed by entering all appropriate options on the command line. Since version 2.1, NSSM can be compiled for x64 platforms. Thanks Benjamin Mayrargue. Since version 2.2, NSSM can be configured to take different actions based on the exit code of the managed application. Since version 2.3, NSSM logs to the Windows event log more elegantly. Since version 2.5, NSSM respects environment variables in its parameters. Since version 2.8, NSSM tries harder to shut down the managed application gracefully and throttles restart attempts if the application doesn't run for a minimum amount of time. Since version 2.11, NSSM respects srvany's AppEnvironment parameter. Since version 2.13, NSSM is translated into French. Thanks François-Régis Tardy. Since version 2.15, NSSM is translated into Italian. Thanks Riccardo Gusmeroli. Since version 2.17, NSSM can try to shut down console applications by simulating a Control-C keypress. If they have installed a handler routine they can clean up and shut down gracefully on receipt of the event. Since version 2.17, NSSM can redirect the managed application's I/O streams to an arbitrary path. Since version 2.18, NSSM can be configured to wait a user-specified amount of time for the application to exit when shutting down. Since version 2.19, many more service options can be configured with the GUI installer as well as via the registry. Since version 2.19, NSSM can add to the service's environment by setting AppEnvironmentExtra in place of or in addition to the srvany-compatible AppEnvironment. Usage ----- In the usage notes below, arguments to the program may be written in angle brackets and/or square brackets. <string> means you must insert the appropriate string and [<string>] means the string is optional. See the examples below... Installation using the GUI -------------------------- To install a service, run nssm install <servicename> You will be prompted to enter the full path to the application you wish to run and any command line options to pass to that application. Use the system service manager (services.msc) to control advanced service properties such as startup method and desktop interaction. NSSM may support these options at a later time... Installation using the command line ----------------------------------- To install a service, run nssm install <servicename> <application> [<options>] NSSM will then attempt to install a service which runs the named application with the given options (if you specified any). Don't forget to enclose paths in "quotes" if they contain spaces! If you want to include quotes in the options you will need to """quote""" the quotes. Managing the service -------------------- NSSM will launch the application listed in the registry when you send it a start signal and will terminate it when you send a stop signal. So far, so much like srvany. But NSSM is the Non-Sucking service manager and can take action if/when the application dies. With no configuration from you, NSSM will try to restart itself if it notices that the application died but you didn't send it a stop signal. NSSM will keep trying, pausing between each attempt, until the service is successfully started or you send it a stop signal. NSSM will pause an increasingly longer time between subsequent restart attempts if the service fails to start in a timely manner, up to a maximum of four minutes. This is so it does not consume an excessive amount of CPU time trying to start a failed application over and over again. If you identify the cause of the failure and don't want to wait you can use the Windows service console (where the service will be shown in Paused state) to send a continue signal to NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds. By default, NSSM defines "a timely manner" to be within 1500 milliseconds. You can change the threshold for the service by setting the number of milliseconds as a REG_DWORD value in the registry at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppThrottle. NSSM will look in the registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppExit for string (REG_EXPAND_SZ) values corresponding to the exit code of the application. If the application exited with code 1, for instance, NSSM will look for a string value under AppExit called "1" or, if it does not find it, will fall back to the AppExit (Default) value. You can find out the exit code for the application by consulting the system event log. NSSM will log the exit code when the application exits. Based on the data found in the registry, NSSM will take one of three actions: If the value data is "Restart" NSSM will try to restart the application as described above. This is its default behaviour. If the value data is "Ignore" NSSM will not try to restart the application but will continue running itself. This emulates the (usually undesirable) behaviour of srvany. The Windows Services console would show the service as still running even though the application has exited. If the value data is "Exit" NSSM will exit gracefully. The Windows Services console would show the service as stopped. If you wish to provide finer-grained control over service recovery you should use this code and edit the failure action manually. Please note that Windows versions prior to Vista will not consider such an exit to be a failure. On older versions of Windows you should use "Suicide" instead. If the value data is "Suicide" NSSM will simulate a crash and exit without informing the service manager. This option should only be used for pre-Vista systems where you wish to apply a service recovery action. Note that if the monitored application exits with code 0, NSSM will only honour a request to suicide if you explicitly configure a registry key for exit code 0. If only the default action is set to Suicide NSSM will instead exit gracefully. Stopping the service -------------------- When stopping a service NSSM will attempt several different methods of killing the monitored application, each of which can be disabled if necessary. First NSSM will attempt to generate a Control-C event and send it to the application's console. Batch scripts or console applications may intercept the event and shut themselves down gracefully. GUI applications do not have consoles and will not respond to this method. Secondly NSSM will enumerate all windows created by the application and send them a WM_CLOSE message, requesting a graceful exit. Thirdly NSSM will enumerate all threads created by the application and send them a WM_QUIT message, requesting a graceful exit. Not all applications' threads have message queues; those which do not will not respond to this method. Finally NSSM will call TerminateProcess() to request that the operating system forcibly terminate the application. TerminateProcess() cannot be trapped or ignored, so in most circumstances the application will be killed. However, there is no guarantee that it will have a chance to perform any tidyup operations before it exits. Any or all of the methods above may be disabled. NSSM will look for the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppStopMethodSkip registry value which should be of type REG_DWORD set to a bit field describing which methods should not be applied. If AppStopMethodSkip includes 1, C