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Since version 2.22, NSSM can manage existing services.\r
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+Since version 2.25, NSSM can execute commands in response to service events.\r
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Usage\r
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supports AppEnvironment.\r
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+Event hooks\r
+-----------\r
+NSSM can run user-configurable commands in response to application events.\r
+These commands are referred to as "hooks" below.\r
+\r
+All hooks are optional. Any hooks which are run will be launched with the\r
+environment configured for the service. NSSM will place additional\r
+variables into the environment which hooks can query to learn how and why\r
+they were called.\r
+\r
+Hooks are categorised by Event and Action. Some hooks are run synchronously\r
+and some are run asynchronously. Hooks prefixed with an *asterisk are run\r
+synchronously. NSSM will wait for these hooks to complete before continuing\r
+its work. Note, however, that ALL hooks are subject to a deadline after which\r
+they will be killed, regardless of whether they are run asynchronously\r
+or not.\r
+\r
+ Event: Start - Triggered when the service is requested to start.\r
+ *Action: Pre - Called before NSSM attempts to launch the application.\r
+ Action: Post - Called after the application successfully starts.\r
+\r
+ Event: Stop - Triggered when the service is requested to stop.\r
+ *Action: Pre - Called before NSSM attempts to kill the application.\r
+\r
+ Event: Exit - Triggered when the application exits.\r
+ *Action: Post - Called after NSSM has cleaned up the application.\r
+\r
+ Event: Rotate - Triggered when online log rotation is requested.\r
+ *Action: Pre - Called before NSSM rotates logs.\r
+ Action: Post - Called after NSSM rotates logs.\r
+\r
+ Event: Power\r
+ Action: Change - Called when the system power status has changed.\r
+ Action: Resume - Called when the system has resumed from standby.\r
+\r
+Note that there is no Stop/Post hook. This is because Exit/Post is called\r
+when the application exits, regardless of whether it did so in response to\r
+a service shutdown request. Stop/Pre is only called before a graceful\r
+shutdown attempt.\r
+\r
+NSSM sets the environment variable NSSM_HOOK_VERSION to a positive number.\r
+Hooks can check the value of the number to determine which other environment\r
+variables are available to them.\r
+\r
+If NSSM_HOOK_VERSION is 1 or greater, these variables are provided:\r
+\r
+ NSSM_EXE - Path to NSSM itself.\r
+ NSSM_CONFIGURATION - Build information for the NSSM executable,\r
+ eg 64-bit debug.\r
+ NSSM_VERSION - Version of the NSSM executable.\r
+ NSSM_BUILD_DATE - Build date of NSSM.\r
+ NSSM_PID - Process ID of the running NSSM executable.\r
+ NSSM_DEADLINE - Deadline number of milliseconds after which NSSM will\r
+ kill the hook if it is still running.\r
+ NSSM_SERVICE_NAME - Name of the service controlled by NSSM.\r
+ NSSM_SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME - Display name of the service.\r
+ NSSM_COMMAND_LINE - Command line used to launch the application.\r
+ NSSM_APPLICATION_PID - Process ID of the primary application process.\r
+ May be blank if the process is not running.\r
+ NSSM_EVENT - Event class triggering the hook.\r
+ NSSM_ACTION - Event action triggering the hook.\r
+ NSSM_TRIGGER - Service control triggering the hook. May be blank if\r
+ the hook was not triggered by a service control, eg Exit/Post.\r
+ NSSM_LAST_CONTROL - Last service control handled by NSSM.\r
+ NSSM_START_REQUESTED_COUNT - Number of times the application was\r
+ requested to start.\r
+ NSSM_START_COUNT - Number of times the application successfully started.\r
+ NSSM_THROTTLE_COUNT - Number of times the application ran for less than\r
+ the throttle period. Reset to zero on successful start or when the\r
+ service is explicitly unpaused.\r
+ NSSM_EXIT_COUNT - Number of times the application exited.\r
+ NSSM_EXITCODE - Exit code of the application. May be blank if the\r
+ application is still running or has not started yet.\r
+ NSSM_RUNTIME - Number of milliseconds for which the NSSM executable has\r
+ been running.\r
+ NSSM_APPLICATION_RUNTIME - Number of milliseconds for which the\r
+ application has been running since it was last started. May be blank\r
+ if the application has not been started yet.\r
+\r
+Future versions of NSSM may provide more environment variables, in which\r
+case NSSM_HOOK_VERSION will be set to a higher number.\r
+\r
+Hooks are configured by creating string (REG_EXPAND_SZ) values in the\r
+registry named after the hook action and placed under\r
+HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppEvents\<event>.\r
+\r
+For example the service could be configured to restart when the system\r
+resumes from standby by setting AppEvents\Power\Resume to:\r
+\r
+ %NSSM_EXE% restart %NSSM_SERVICE_NAME%\r
+\r
+Note that NSSM will abort the startup of the application if a Start/Pre hook\r
+returns exit code of 99.\r
+\r
+A service will normally run hooks in the following order:\r
+\r
+ Start/Pre\r
+ Start/Post\r
+ Stop/Pre\r
+ Exit/Post\r
+\r
+If the application crashes and is restarted by NSSM, the order might be:\r
+\r
+ Start/Pre\r
+ Start/Post\r
+ Exit/Post\r
+ Start/Pre\r
+ Start/Post\r
+ Stop/Pre\r
+ Exit/Post\r
+\r
+\r
Managing services using the GUI\r
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NSSM can edit the settings of existing services with the same GUI that is\r
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