4.6. Configuring the Server as a Windows Service
The
rhq-server.bat
script has an installation option that installs the script as a Windows service.
- Set the environment variable for the user to run the Windows service as.Every Windows service has to run as some system user. There are two environment variables in the
rhq-server.bat
script that set the user to use:RHQ_SERVER_RUN_AS
sets any Windows user to be the JBoss ON server user. The username given here must be in the standard Windows format, DOMAIN\user, such asEXAMPLEDOMAIN\jsmith
.RHQ_SERVER_RUN_AS_ME
sets the server to run as whoever the current user is. This overrides theRHQ_SERVER_RUN_AS
, if both as set.
If neither environment variable is set, then the JBoss ON server runs as the system account. - Run the
rhq-server.bat
script with theinstall
option to set up the service. This prompts for the password of whatever user account is used for the JBoss ON service.serverRoot\bin\rhq-server.bat install