Re: Windows service in production?

[jyothi . nadu]

On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 10:02:02 AM UTC+5:30, snorble wrote:
> Anyone know of a Python application running as a Windows service in
> production? I'm planning a network monitoring application that runs as
> a service and reports back to the central server. Sort of a heartbeat
> type agent to assist with "this server is down, go check on it" type
> situations.
> 
> If using Visual Studio and C# is the more reliable way, then I'll go
> that route. I love Python, but everything I read about Python services
> seems to have workarounds ahoy for various situations (or maybe that's
> just Windows services in general?). And there seem to be multiple
> layers of workarounds, since it takes py2exe (or similar) and there
> are numerous workarounds required there, depending on which libraries
> and functionality are being used. Overall, reading about Windows
> services in Python is not exactly a confidence inspiring experience.
> If I knew of a reference example of something reliably running in
> production, I'd feel better than copying and pasting some code from a
> guy's blog.

Have you got any resolution for creating a service in windows 7 32bit
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Re: Windows service in production?

[jyothi . nadu]

On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 1:22:37 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 16/08/2011 05:32, snorble wrote:
> > Anyone know of a Python application running as a Windows service in
> > production? I'm planning a network monitoring application that runs as
> > a service and reports back to the central server. Sort of a heartbeat
> > type agent to assist with "this server is down, go check on it" type
> > situations.
> 
> Don't know what it'll take to inspire you with confidence, but I have
> several Python services running here without a hitch.
> The longest have been running for about three years -- not without
> a stop, since they have to be restarted for reasons external to the
> service itself.
> 
> There's no py2exe involved, just the pywin32 service wrappers. (The
> apps in question are also set up to run standalone for testing etc.).
> They're mostly around a helpdesk system: one app ingests email requests
> to the helpdesk; another post-processes call changes, currently to
> send out email alerts to interested parties; another triggers alarms
> on calls for various purposes, etc.
> 
> I don't claim they're the most sophisticated pieces of code on Earth,
> but it doesn't sound like you're after anything spectacular either.
> 
> TJG



hello everyone,


I want to run a python file as a service in my windows7 , I am trying but not 
getting the proper sollution and i have written a script for this but not 
executing properly and i need to work this with postgresql


import win32service
import win32serviceutil
import win32api
import win32con
import win32event
import win32evtlogutil
import os, sys, string, time
'''
C:\>python aservice.py  --username tarang --password 12345 --startup auto 
install
'''
class aservice(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
   
   _svc_name_ = "Trail Service"
   _svc_display_name_ = "Database Maintenance"
   _svc_description_ = "THis is what my crazy little service does - aka a 
DESCRIPTION! WHoa!"
 
   def __init__(self, args):
   win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)
   self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None)  

   def SvcStop(self):
   self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
   win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop)
 
   def SvcDoRun(self):
  import servicemanager  
  
servicemanager.LogMsg(servicemanager.EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE,servicemanager.PYS_SERVICE_STARTED,(self._svc_name_,
 ''))
 

  self.timeout = 12 #120 seconds / 2 minutes

  while 1:
 # Wait for service stop signal, if I timeout, loop again
 rc = win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop, self.timeout)
 # Check to see if self.hWaitStop happened
 if rc == win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0:
# Stop signal encountered
servicemanager.LogInfoMsg("TrailVersion - STOPPED!")
break
 else:
   
 try:
 file_path = "D:\Tarang\Project\form1.py"
 execfile(file_path) 

 inc_file_path2 = "D:\Tarang\Project\reter1.py"
 execfile(inc_file_path2)

 inc_file_path2 = "D:\Tarang\Project\exporting.py"
 execfile(inc_file_path2)
 except:
 pass
 


def ctrlHandler(ctrlType):
   return True
 
if __name__ == '__main__':  
   win32api.SetConsoleCtrlHandler(ctrlHandler, True)  
   win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(aservice)

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