On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 11:53:51 AM, LLC wrote: JISL> I'm investigating the persistant mode and read the info on the web site. JISL> Can't make heads or tails of it.
JISL> How do enable persistant mode on a Windows 2003 Server? The web site speaks JISL> hypothetically, but the information is not practical. >>From the message at JISL> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00165.html it would JISL> seem that you need an external utility to run Sniffer in persistant mode, JISL> but the link to JISL> http://www.judoscript.com/goodies/RunExeSvc/runexesvc.html JISL> is no longer valid. JISL> What exact steps are needed to run in persistant mode on Windows 2003 JISL> Server? Sorry about that... the Judoscript site comes and goes lately. (Maybe permanently gone this time). To run in persistent mode, simply launch an instance of SNF from the command line with the word "persistent" in place of the file to scan. <licenseid>.exe <authentication> persistent The persistent instance will be recognized by all of the other instances (those are launched by your email server usually - one per message). When a persistent instance is present it will keep the rulebase loaded in memory and the other instances will coordinate with it to get their messages scanned. This eliminates the work of reloading the rulebase and can help to optimize the timing of the message scans to improve throughput. If the persistent instance fails or is stopped for any reason then the SNF software returns to it's native peer-server mode. There are a number of utilities out there (some free) that allow you to run an executable as a service. RunExeSvc is the one I used. Many have recommended FireDaemon: http://www.firedaemon.com/ There is also a windows toolkit that will let you run programs as services - it requires some hacking in the registry as I recall. I can't provide specifics for these approaches at this time, but I believe the windows toolkit method was described well in the sniffer@ list archives, and Firedaemon will have it's own process that is likely to be simpler. Hope this helps, _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
