The GUI and the service DON'T interact. If you have the system tray icon in XP and double click it then the GUI of the process that shows the icon will open. So if the service is running and you have desktop interaction and you see the icon, then double click that icon then the GUI open, GUI part of the service. If you run the app then it will be the apps GUI.
In Windows 7 (and 2008) the desktop interaction for services works differently (not to say doesn't work) and as result you don't get the icon. Starting the GUI, is starting the serversalive.exe file, being the Servers Alive application. Getting the access denied under Windows 7/2008 is again due to a change in the OS. You can overcome this by setting the EXE to run as administrator. The behaviour you see is how it currently works under Windows 7/2008, due OS differences between Win7/2008 and XP/2003/2000. The next major release will change the working. In the current beta (http://beta.woodstone.nu) we have an "icon"-client which is able to display the icon, however calling the GUI from it is not (yet) possible. The archive.woodstone.nu site has over 20000 posts, but is NOT up-to-date at all. Not sure if it will ever be updated.... -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aidan Whitehall Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:31 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] Windows 7, "Access is denied" dialogue box and the Servers Alive Notification Area icon Hi list This question possibly exposes my lack of understanding on how the SA GUI and the Windows SA service interact, so please bear that in mind. In Windows XP, if you start the SA service, the orange SA icon appears in the System Tray. If you double-click that icon, the GUI starts, and any changes you make in the GUI appear to relate to the settings used by the service. If you close the GUI, the icon remains in the System Tray, and you can use it's state to be alerted to the failure of a monitored system. In Windows 7, starting the service doesn't cause the icon to appear in the Notification Area (even if you set the SA behaviour to "Show icon and notifications"). When you start the GUI, a dialogue box title "SvcIt" appears, with the text "Access is denied." Clicking OK, the SA icon then appears in the System Tray. Even though the SA service is running, the "Start" button in the GUI isn't greyed out. From this, I suspect the GUI is not configuring the service, but am unsure. When you close the GUI, the SA Notification Area icon disappears. My questions are: is this the intended behaviour (i.e. am I using it correctly). How do you use the GUI to configure the service, as was possible in Windows XP? Is there any way to display the orange SA icon in the Notification Area on Windows 7 whilst the service is running? Thanks! P.S. I looked in the archives at http://archive.serversalive.com/ for anything related to this, but turned up nothing. Is this a *very* quiet list? The entire archive seems to be no more than 60 posts...? -- Regards Aidan Whitehall +44 (0)1695 51775 Fairbanks Environmental Ltd http://www.fairbanks.co.uk/ ________________________________________________________________________ Fairbanks Environmental Limited is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 03027771 (VAT number GB670659412). Registered office: The Technology Management Centre, Moss Lane View, Skelmersdale, WN8 9TN Tel +44 (0)1695 51775 Fax +44 (0)870 242 9890 This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Star, powered by MessageLabs ________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.
