Christopher, > > On 9/2/13 12:22 PM, Markward Schubert wrote: > > I have a short question. Does the monitor exe do anything "magical" > > when a tomcat service is started the first time with it, in > > contrast to starting the already installed service with the windows > > service manager? > > > > In fact our application would not start until we start the service > > from the monitor exe. Of course this is something in our app, but > > there must be some external parameter, being "fixed" by running the > > exe first. > > > > Monitor and servicemanagement both would be started "As > > Administrator", but with different results. > > > > After the Monitor was run once, the box seems to be in a "working" > > mode, so after that, we can uninstall the service and delete the > > folder and do a reinstall and everything would work, even without > > calling tomcat7w.exe. This also makes debugging for me a bit hard > > at the moment, as the only windows server 2012 box I currently > > have, is in "fixed" mode now. > > Consider installing guest-VM software such as VirtualBox, VMWare, etc. > with a disk snapshot taken while you are in "broken mode". Then, you > can play with the configuration, launching, etc. and roll-back at any > time back into the broken state in order to try something else (or > verify that your last effort was correct). > > I do this kind of thing all the time, and it is very effective. >
Thanks a lot for the advice, also to you other folks! I thought about using some vm-boxes, but we decided to not invest further into this issue at the moment. If this happens again in some setup, I will digg into the problem again and will report, if I have any new information or a solution. Regards, Markward
