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Customizing service settings
editCustomizing service settings
editThere are two ways to customize the service settings:
- Manager GUI
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accessible through
manager
command, the GUI offers insight into the installed service including its status, startup type, JVM, start and stop settings among other things. Simply invokingservice.bat
from the command-line with the aforementioned option will open up the manager window:
![Windows Service Manager GUI](images/service-manager-win.png)
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Customizing
service.bat
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at its core,
service.bat
relies on Apache Commons Daemon project to install the services. For full flexibility such as customizing the user under which the service runs, one can modify the installation parameters to tweak all the parameters accordingly. Do note that this requires reinstalling the service for the new settings to be applied.