Multiple services

Although you can use the Windows Service Manager in the Control Panel for some tasks, you cannot install or configure a MobiLink service from the Windows Service Manager. You can use Sybase Central to perform all the service management for MobiLink.

When you open the Windows Service Manager from the Windows Control Panel, a list of services appears. The names of the SQL Anywhere services are formed from the Service Name you provided when installing the service, prefixed by SQL Anywhere. All the installed services appear together in the list.

Service dependencies

In some circumstances you may want to run more than one executable as a service, and these executables may depend on each other. For example, you must run the MobiLink server and the consolidated database server to synchronize.

Services must start in the correct order. If a MobiLink synchronization service starts before the consolidated database server has started, MobiLink fails because it cannot find the consolidated database server. The sequence must be such that the database server is running when you start the MobiLink server. (This does not apply if the consolidated database server is on another computer.)

You can prevent these problems using service groups, which you manage from Sybase Central. See Adding a service or group to a list of dependencies.

Service groups

Checking and changing which group a service belongs to
Adding a service or group to a list of dependencies

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