Run as a Service

You may want to run LANsurveyor as a Windows service to ensure network monitoring continues after a power outage or restart.

LANsurveyor can run as a service on your Windows 2003, Vista, 2008, 7 or later computer. If you run LANsurveyor as a service, LANsurveyor can monitor your network without requiring a user to be logged into the computer. In addition, if your computer restarts, monitoring automatically restarts.

When preparing to run LANsurveyor as a service, log into your computer as the administrator of the computer. This allows LANsurveyor to install properly and assures the options function properly. Then select Install As A Service... from the File menu to set the service options.

If you want the user interface displayed when any user logs in, click the check box next to Display the LANsurveyor application. Click OK and LANsurveyor will install the service components.

Once LANsurveyor is running as a service, the manually launched instance of LANsurveyor will exit and the LANsurveyor service will relaunch LANsurveyor. Once the service is started, LANsurveyor will keep relaunching itself to monitor and create reports, even if the logged in user tries to exit the application.

AutoOpen Documents

Any LANsurveyor documents specified in the AutoOpen setting are automatically opened by LANsurveyor when launched as a service. Any specified maps are then available for Continuous Scan and Repository data gathering.

Stop LANsurveyor Service

To stop the service, access the Windows Start menu, select Settings>Control Panel> Administrative Tools>Services, click the LANsurveyor Service, and select Stop.

Uninstall LANsurveyor Service

To uninstall the LANsurveyor service:

  sc delete swlansurveyor

Note: You must be logged in using an account that has Administrative privileges in order to successfully execute the previous command.