The problem is I need to install the program, that runs additional service in the middle of installation. While trying to run it manually, it returns error 1084: Can not start the service in the Safe Mode.
What should I add to registry in order to run this service?
To start services in Safe mode you have to run regedit.exe and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot.
Windows has 2 types of safe mode. The minimal one and the one with network.
Under your type create now a key with the short name of your driver and type service in the default string. Here you can also whitelist other windows services / drivers that you want o get loaded in safe mode.
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At the company I work for, we use Bit9 as part of our security stack. We are in the process of upgrade the version to 8.0 (and eventually 8.2) on all of our devices. Between the automatic upgrades and a different script I wrote, I was able to upgrade about 1000. But there are still about 700 left where the CLI password from Bit9 is not working, and the devices are not checking in to allow auto upgrade.
Bit9 has come back and suggested the following:
Boot the endpoint into Safe Mode w/ Networking
Run a script that executes the following Administrative commands from a CMD prompt (please note the proper spacing between start= disabled):
sc config parity start= disabled
sc config paritydriver start= disabled
Boot into Normal Mode
I've written a script that is supposed to do all of this, except I cannot for the life of me get the script to run once the device starts in safe mode. I've tried everything that I can think of:
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
Placing a batch file in the Startup folder
Scheduled task
Nothing I do is working.
And one other caveat, the user that is logging in (safe mode & normal mode) is not an administrator. It is a regular user. I am kicking off the initial script with BigFix, which does run as an administrator.
Thanks in advance.
I was finally able to get it to work. The service idea was the starting point, though instead of creating a "fake" service, I actually wrote a service in C# that calls the PS script. I was then able to edit the registry, where I made that service able to start in safe mode. That seemed to do the trick. Now the only issue is that I can't seem to disable safe mode programmatically, but I will ask that as a separate question.
I am trying to use the scheduler in Blue Prism and followed this guide to configure everything. However, my scheduled tasks are not running (nothing is started, there is no recent activity). One of the requirements to run a schedule is to have the blue prism server service running. How do I check this?
I have attached here some screenshots of my configured scheduler. The pending status on the timetable just disappears when I do "Run (schedule) now", and a checkmark never appears. The logs are also empty with no start or end time.
The answer is simple - you're doing everything correct, but it's impossible to run a scheduler on the evaluate licence. Once you'll have a production licence and application server, then it should work as expected
have you got Blue Prism Server installed and running. You need to connect to SQL database through Blue Prism Server.
You can find instructions how to set up a Blue Prism Server locally here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXeNCJ60SMI
Finally you need to disable the interactive mode on your machine:
The interactive run mode may be disabled via System Manager in System, Settings, (uncheck “Start the process engine on this machine when users sign in”) in order to avoid it conflicting with the Resource PC mode, for example).
And run a separate instance of Blue Prism as resource pc from command line:
"C:\Program Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate\Automate.exe" /resourcepc /public /dbconname ""
I have create a small script file to test.
This my script.bat file.
sc create myService binpath= C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\test.bat start= auto
This is my test.bat file.
echo "Welcome to Wizard"
Problem Statement
I am unable to start the service from control panel Service section.
I get following error.
[SC] StartService FAILED 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
That is why I am using nssm.
NOW what happening is that when I run following command on powershell
.\nssm install myService, I dialogue box appears. I give it the path of my script file and click on install service.
After successfull installation of service. I go to control panel -> Service -> click on start against myService but it get paused and following dialog box appears
How can I fix this?
Is there anyother way to do it without doing manual steps and not using third party tool.
I am doing all this on window 10. Do I need any server to perform this task?
NOTE: I cannot use Always up or window scheduler in my case.
The NSSM behaviour is caused by the script terminating almost instantly. Try the following script:
echo Hello World
pause
This should allow the service to start, but you will not necessarily see a console window. Even if you tick 'allow service to interact with desktop', it will not be your desktop that it interacts with!
Windows implements 'session zero isolation' as a security feature, and this essentially prevents services interacting with end user desktops.
In terms of a solution, it's possible to write Windows 'service' applications fairly simply using Visual Studio. It's outside my area of expertise, but based on the Windows applications I'm familiar with, you would generally have a user-mode application running to provide desktop interaction. The user-mode application can interact with services hosted by the service application.
Probably this is resolved by now, but in case it helps anyone, what saved the day for me was checking again my input in the arguments field in nssm. I had an extra "-" which created the error. To edit my service, I went via nssm edit <servicename>
I would also add on the fix that worked for me. I added "" (quotes) in the argument path and that solved the issue for me.
I have setup the apache cloudstack on CentOS 6.8 machine following quick installation guide. The management server and KVM are setup on the same machine. The management server is running without problems. I was able to add zone, pod, cluster, primary and secondary storage from the web interface. But when I tried to add an instance it is not showing any templates in the second stage as you can see in the screenshot
However, I am able to see two templates under Templates link in web UI.
But when I select the template and navigate to Zone tab, I see Timeout waiting for response from storage host and Ready field shows no.
When I check the management server logs, it seems there is an error when cloudstack tries to mount secondary storage for use. The below segment from cloudstack-management.log file describes this error.
2017-03-09 23:26:43,207 DEBUG [c.c.a.t.Request] (AgentManager-Handler-
14:null) (logid:) Seq 2-7686800138991304712: Processing: { Ans: , MgmtId:
279278805450918, via: 2, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, [{"com.cloud.agent.api.Answer":
{"result":false,"details":"com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException:
GetRootDir for nfs://172.16.10.2/export/secondary failed due to
com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Unable to mount
172.16.10.2:/export/secondary at /mnt/SecStorage/6e26529d-c659-3053-8acb-
817a77b6cfc6 due to mount.nfs: Connection timed out\n\tat
org.apache.cloudstack.storage.resource.NfsSecondaryStorageResource.getRootDir(Nf
sSecondaryStorageResource.java:2080)\n\tat
org.apache.cloudstack.storage.resource.NfsSecondaryStorageResource.execute(NfsSe
condaryStorageResource.java:1829)\n\tat
org.apache.cloudstack.storage.resource.NfsSecondaryStorageResource.executeReques
t(NfsSecondaryStorageResource.java:265)\n\tat
com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525)\n\tat
com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:833)\n\tat
com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.call(Task.java:83)\n\tat
com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.call(Task.java:29)\n\tat
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)\n\tat
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)\
n\tat
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)\
n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)\n","wait":0}}] }
Can anyone please guide me how to resolve this issue? I have been trying to figure it out for some hours now and don't know how to proceed further.
Edit 1: Please note that my LAN address was 10.103.72.50 which I assume is not /24 address. I tried to give CentOs a static IP by making the following settings in ifcg-eth0 file
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=52:54:00:B9:A6:C0
NM_CONTROLLED=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=172.16.10.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=172.16.10.1
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DNS2=8.8.4.4
But doing this would stop my internet. As a workaround, I reverted these changes and installed all the packages first. Then I changed the IP to static by the same configuration settings as above and ran the cloudstack management. Everything worked fine untill I bumped into this template thing. Please help me figure out what might have went wrong
I know I'm late, but for people trying out in the future, here it goes:
I hope you have successfully added a host as mentioned in Quick Install Guide before you changed your IP to static as it autoconfigures VLANs for different traffic and creates two bridges - generally with names 'cloud' or 'cloudbr'. Cloudstack uses the Secondary Storage System VM for doing all the storage-related operations in each Zone and Cluster. What seems to be the problem is that secondary storage system vm (SSVM) is not able to communicate with the management server at port 8250. If not, try manually mounting the NFS server's mount points in the SSVM shell. You can ssh into the SSVM using the below command:
ssh -i /var/cloudstack/management/.ssh/id_rsa -p 3922 root#<Private or Link local Ip address of SSVM>
I suggest you run the /usr/local/cloud/systemvm/ssvm-check.sh after doing ssh into the secondary storage system VM (assuming it is running) and has it's private, public and link local IP address. If that doesn't help you much, take a look at the secondary storage troubleshooting docs at Cloudstack.
I would further recommend, if anyone in future runs into similar issues, check if the SSVM is running and is in "Up" state in the System VMs section of Infrastructure tab and that you are able to open up a console session of it from the browser. If that is working go on to run the ssvm-check.sh script mentioned above which systematically checks each and every point of operation that SSVM executes. Even if console session cannot be opened up, you can still ssh using the link local IP address of SSVM which can be accessed by opening up details of SSVM and than execute the script. If it says, it cannot communicate with Management Server at port 8250, I recommend you check the iptables rules of management server and make sure all traffic is allowed at port 8250. A custom command to check the same is nc -v <mngmnt-server-ip> 8250. You can do a simple search and learn how to add port 8250 in your iptables rules if that is not opened. Next, you mentioned you used CentOS 6.8, so it probably uses older versions of nfs, so execute exportfs -a in your NFS server to make sure all the NFS shares are properly exported and there are no errors. I would recommend that you wait for the downloading status of CentOS 5.5 no GUI kvm template to be complete and its Ready status shown as 'Yes' before you start importing your own templates and ISOs to execute on VMs. Finally, if your ssvm-check.sh script shows everything is good and the download still does not start, you can run the command: service cloud restart and actually check if the service has gotten a PID using service cloud status as the older versions of system vm templates sometimes need us to manually start the cloud service using service cloud start even after the restart command. Restarting the cloud service in SSVM triggers the restart of downloading of all remaining templates and ISOs. Side note: the system VMs uses a Debian kernel if you want to do some more troubleshooting. Hope this helps.
I have a requirement to create a service that cannot be stopped by end user.
If the OS kills it, it is fine.
I have seen some processes that I am not able to quit. I need help on how this is possible.
For example, if i launch a 2.3 emulator and check the running services, one of the service - Japanese IME input does not a contain a stop option.
I cannot stop this service. Similarly with Swype. How is it possible to create such a service.
Thanks in advance.