Modifying the Admin service

You do not normally need to make any changes to the Admin service. However, there may be occasions when you want to turn off or modify the monitoring. For example, you may have a disk on the system that is nearly full but that Enterprise Vault does not use. The Admin service monitors all local disks, so it may stop Enterprise Vault even though Enterprise Vault has enough space. In such circumstances you probably want to stop monitoring the disk.

Note:

Do not stop the Admin service unnecessarily. Enterprise Vault requires the Admin service to be present at all times. If you do stop the Admin service, all the other Enterprise Vault services on the same computer stop as well. Also, if you start one of the other services and the Admin service is not running, the Admin service automatically starts.

To pause monitoring by the Admin service

  1. In the Windows Control Panel, double-click Services.

  2. In the list of services, click Enterprise Vault Admin Service.

  3. On the Action menu, click Pause.

    To resume monitoring, click Resume on the Action menu.

To modify the behavior of future instances of the Admin service

  1. In the Windows Control Panel, double-click Services.

  2. In the list of services, double-click Enterprise Vault Admin Service.

  3. If the Admin service is running, click Stop, and then click Yes when prompted to stop other Enterprise Vault services.

  4. In the Start Parameters box, type the parameters to use.

    To specify the disks that the Admin service should monitor. By default, the service monitors all local hard disks.

    Type the following start parameter:

    /DISKS[=list]

    where list specifies one or more disks to monitor. Do not include any spaces or tabs in the list. The colon (:) in the disk name is optional.

    For example, to monitor disks C, E, and F only, type either of the following:

    /DISKS=C:E:F:

    /DISKS=CEF

    To make this apply every time the Admin service starts, add the /SAVE parameter as follows:

    /DISKS=C:E:F: /SAVE

    /DISKS=CEF /SAVE

    To monitor all disks (this restores the default behavior), type the following:

    /DISKS

    To turn off monitoring for the instance of the Admin service that will start when you click Start in the Services control panel.

    Type the following start parameter:

    /NOMONITOR

    To turn off monitoring every time the Admin service starts.

    Type the following start parameter:

    /NOMONITOR /SAVE

    To turn on monitoring for the instance of the Admin service that will start when you click Start in the Services control panel.

    Type the following start parameter:

    /MONITOR

    To turn on monitoring every time the Admin service starts.

    Type the following start parameter:

    /MONITOR /SAVE

    To apply the changes every time the Admin service starts.

    Type the following start parameter:

    /SAVE

    For example, to monitor disks E and F every time the Admin service starts, type the following:

    /DISKS=EF /SAVE

  5. Click Start to start the Admin service.

  6. Start other Enterprise Vault services as necessary.