If you install the proxy to a Microsoft Windows computer,
you can configure the proxy to run as a Windows service. You can set the proxy service
to restart automatically whenever the computer is restarted.
The proxy computer must have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
installed.
To configure the proxy as a Windows service:
- If the proxy is not installed to the default location at C:\Program
Files\IBM Optim\proxy, complete the following steps:
- Open the folder in which you installed the proxy.
- Open the proxyService.xml file
in that folder by using a text editor such as Notepad.
- Change the value of the proxyLocation entity
to the folder in which you installed the proxy.
For example, if you install the proxy to D:\Applications\IBM
Optim\proxy, use Notepad to open D:\Applications\IBM
Optim\proxy\proxyService.xml and change the proxyLocation value
to D:\Applications\IBM Optim\proxy. On
computers that run a 64-bit version of Windows, the proxy is installed to C:\Program
Files (x86)\IBM Optim\proxy by default. You must therefore
always edit the proxyService.xml file on computers
that run a 64-bit version of Windows.
- Open the command prompt by clicking and entering the command cmd.
- Enter the following commands at the command prompt, where proxy_folder is
the folder in which the proxy is installed:
cd proxy_folder
proxyService.exe install
proxyService.exe start
You can check on the progress of the proxy by looking at
the contents of log files. There are 3 log files:
- proxy_folder/log/proxyService.err.log
- proxy_folder/log/proxyService.out.log
- proxy_folder/log/proxyService.wrapper.log
To stop and uninstall the proxy service, enter the following
commands at the command prompt.
cd proxy_folder
proxyService.exe stop
proxyService.exe uninstall