Running MOVEit Central in the Foreground, Not As a Service

There are two ways to run MOVEit Central in the foreground as a "normal" application instead of as a service. Doing so is normally useful in only two situations: you are attempting to replicate and diagnose unusual problems caused by permissions or policies recently applied to the administrative user under which MOVEit Central runs or you want to bring MOVEit Central up with the scheduler disabled so you can examine an imported configuration without running any tasks.

To just run MOVEit Central as a normal foreground application, select the "Run MOVEit Central Service in Foreground" option from the Start menu "MOVEit Central" program group.

To take advantage of other run options, you must start MOVEit Central from the command line. Some of these options can harm your existing MOVEit Central implementation, so please read the entire description of each option before using it. The following options are currently available:

• -? - Causes MOVEit Central to display a very short help dialog and exit.
• -manual - Causes MOVEit Central to run as a normal foreground application. (Using this option and this option only will achieve the same result as selecting the "Run MOVEit Central Service in Foreground" option from the Start menu "MOVEit Central" program group.)
• -config [config_file] - Causes MOVEit Central to launch using a config file other than "miccfg.xml". When this option is used, "-manual" is also almost always used as well.
• -k - Causes MOVEit Central to launch with the scheduler disabled. When this option is used, "-manual" is also almost always used as well.
• -remove - Causes MOVEit Central to uninstall its Windows service entry. (This is much different than uninstalling the entire application.) Using this option could break your MOVEit Central implementation.
• -install - Causes MOVEit Central to install its Windows service entry. (This is much different than installing the entire application.) Using this option could break your MOVEit Central implementation.

Ipswitch technicians use the following batch file (saved in the "/Program Files/MOVEit" folder) to safely launch customer configurations in the foreground for troubleshooting purposes. This batch file disables the scheduler and requires technicians to type in the explicit name of an alternate configuration.

@echo off SET CUSTOMERCONFIG=%1 if R%CUSTOMERCONFIG%R==RR GOTO NOCONFIG "c:\program files\moveit\micentral.exe" -k -manual -config %1 GOTO THEEND :NOCONFIG echo *** You MUST provide the path of a custom config file! :THEEND