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ExLibrisGroup / alma-print-daemon

Application which listens for and prints letters from the Ex Libris Alma print queues.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Ability to run as a service #5

Closed betullam closed 2 years ago

betullam commented 4 years ago

Our Goal: We would like to run the Alma Print Daemon as a service on a server that manages our printers. It is a Windows Server 2016. We already tried installation and printing - that worked great.

The Problem: After logging off from the server the Alma Print Daemon is closed. Thus printing is not possible anymore. Due to our security policy every staff member that logs on to the server and does some work on it has to log off after he/she finished and therefore the Alma Print Daemon is closed also.

Our Feature Request: It would be great if the Alma Print Daemon could be run as a service that starts up when the Windows Server starts, without the need that a user logs in and starts the app manually. It would also be necessary that the app starts un-paused (see issue #1)

fabian-combox commented 3 years ago

What is the status on this? Have you already done anything?

mgobat commented 3 years ago

We are still investigating running the Alma Print Daemon as a Windows Service.

betullam commented 3 years ago

Any news on this?

mgobat commented 3 years ago

Coming very soon as a beta release on Windows. It will require nssm.

betullam commented 3 years ago

Great news, thank you!

mgobat commented 3 years ago

Please note that general release of 1.3 will come first. The version that can run both as a service, and in its current form, will most likely be numbered version 2.0.

mgobat commented 3 years ago

Alma Print Daemon 2.0-beta is available with this new feature.

https://github.com/ExLibrisGroup/alma-print-daemon/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta

mgobat commented 2 years ago

Has anyone been running the 2.0 beta as a service? Any feedback?

betullam commented 2 years ago

@mgobat: Yes we are running it as a service and as far as I know it works without any bigger problems. But to be able to give you a correct answer I should ask the person in our IT department who installed it on our printer server. I will get back to you as soon as I have an answer.

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@betullam, thank you for your response. We look forward to any additional feedback from your IT department.

betullam commented 2 years ago

@mgobat The person from our IT department told me that it is running without problems as a Task, but that it fails when he tries to run it as a Service. I hope this helps!

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@betullam, could you please ask your IT person to send me some details on the task vs service experience? I'm at mark.gobat@exlibrisgroup.com. Thank you.

mgobat commented 2 years ago

Available in release 2.0.0. Please open new issues if you are having problems running the application as a service.