About EVService

EVservice is a command-line utility that lets you start and stop Windows services and Enterprise Vault tasks on local or remote computers. EVservice can also pause and resume services and Enterprise Vault tasks that accept pause and resume requests.

EVservice is useful if you have a backup procedure that you want to automate. Before you can back up an Enterprise Vault system, you must shut down the Enterprise Vault services and tasks. You can then restart them when the backup has completed.

Most backup packages let you run a program file or batch file before and after a backup job. If your backup package provides this facility, you can use EVservice to start and stop Enterprise Vault as required.

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If you are running Enterprise Vault in a clustering environment, you can control tasks with EVservice but you cannot control services. To control services in a VCS cluster, use the hares command that is described in the Veritas Cluster Server Administrator's Guide.