ES Service Manager

You can manage LN on your Windows server with an Infor ES Service Manager snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

This snap-in is displayed as the Infor Manager in the programs menu.

You can use the Infor ES Service Manager snap-in to run these processes:

  • View all LN environments.
  • View the status of the LN-specific services for each LN environment.
  • Add, change, or remove LN-environment-specific variables.
  • Install, start, and stop LN-specific services.
  • Edit the settings of the LN-specific services.

Overview of the Enterprise Server Service Manager snap-in

The Enterprise Server Service Manager snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) enables you to manage LN Software Environments (BSE) on your system.

The ES Service Manager snap-in installs automatically on the LN server during the installation of LN.

The ES Service Manager lists the LN environments (BSEs) on your system. You can independently administer the displayed BSEs.

The ES Service Manager displays these services:

  • The ES Logic Service for every ERP LN installation.

    You can use the ES Service Manager to enable or disable the Logic Service for each LN installation.

  • The Shared Memory Service for every BSE.

    You can use the ES Service Manager to enable or disable the Shared Memory Service for each BSE.

ES Logic Service

Use the ES Logic Service to configure the LN connection protocols. The ES Logic Service connects the LN Windows (BW) client to the LN server and checks whether the user has the authorization to connect to the LN server. With the ES Logic Service, you can start/stop access to the LN server.

To connect to the LN server, the ES Logic Service offers you these methods:

  • Rexec

    Also known as the remote execution protocol. Rexec does not use passwords encryption. We recommend that you disable this insecure protocol.

  • BaanLogin

    Proprietary remote execution protocol. Sends user and password in encrypted form.

  • Federation Services

    Provides central authentication and authorization for multiple applications. Federation Services makes single sign on (SSO) available for LN.

  • Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI)

    This is only available on Windows.

Single sign on (SSO) permits a user access with a single action of user authentication and authorization. This is valid for all systems on which the user has access permission. You do not have to specify multiple passwords.

SSO does not use passwords, but uses the Windows user authentication. With SSO, users are no longer required to perform multiple logons, nor must users remember multiple passwords to access network resources. The user logs on to Windows once and no further passwords are required.

All SSO-specific information is stored in a single repository, the Active Directory, which provides a single, authoritative listing of each user’s rights and privileges. You can change a user’s privileges and the result is distributed network wide.

When using SSPI protocol for authentication, the Infor ES Logic service must run on a system, that can authenticate identities of incoming user requests. The Active Directory Server for the Windows Domain the LN server is member of is used/accessed. If that system cannot authenticate the user identity, the user logon is denied. Contact your local Windows administrator regarding trusts and authentication settings of the LN system and the Active Directory Server/Domain controller(s). Such relationship(s) must exist before (domain) users can be validated.

See the Infor Enterprise Server Single Sign On User Guide.

Shared Memory Service

With the Shared Memory Service, you can configure LN ’s shared memory. The shared memory is a part of the physical memory intended for common use. Programs communicate with each other with shared memory. The use of shared memory results in faster access to the components loaded in shared memory. Before you start the application, you must initialize and set up the shared memory.

These components can be loaded into shared memory:

  • Report objects
  • Program objects
  • Table definitions

LN management procedures

The ES Service Manager provides the tools to manage and administer LN on your system.

With the ES Service Manager, you have these options:

  • Start or stop an LN Software Environment (BSE).
  • Enable, disable, start, or stop the Shared Memory Service of the current BSE environment.
  • Configure the ES Logic Service.
  • Enable, disable, start, or stop the ES Logic Service for a system’s LN environments.
  • Configure the shared memory parameters.
  • Rename BSE environments.
  • Edit the BSE variables.
Note: 

For ERP releases earlier than Infor Baan 5.2a, you can also use the Infor ES Service Manager to enable, disable, start, or stop these processes:

  • The Job Daemon service by ERP installation.
  • For porting sets earlier than 7.1d.12: the ERP Licensing Service by BSE. From porting set 7.1d.12 licensing is managed externally by the Infor Solution License Manager (SLM).

These options are not available for newer releases. For Infor Baan 5.2a and later, this applies:

  • SLM manages licensing externally.
  • For porting sets earlier than 8.3a the Application Services Manager (ASM) manages the Job Daemon service externally. From porting set 8.3 a you can choose whether you want to use ASM or the Job Daemon Service.
Note: Optionally, you can start, stop, and disable services through the Windows Service Manager, or through the -start, -stop, -install, and -remove command line options. We recommend that you perform all actions through the Infor ES Service Manager snap-in.

To start an LN software environment (BSE)

This procedure describes how to start or stop an LN software environment (BSE):

  • Start the ES Service Manager from the Microsoft Windows Start menu.
  • In the Tree pane of the ES Service Manager, expand the LN server node that contains the software environment.
  • Select the LN software environment (BSE) you want to start and, on the toolbar, click the Start Service button. The BSE is now running.

To configure the ES Logic Service

To configure the ES Logic Service of an LN Software Environment (BSE):

  • Start the ES Service Manager.
  • Start the ES Logic Service Properties dialog box.
  • Specify or modify the Service Properties
  • Save the Service Properties changes
  • Restart the Logic Service
  • Restart the Shared Memory Service.

To configure the Shared Memory Service

To configure the Shared Memory Service of an LN Software Environment (BSE):

  • Start the ES Service Manager.
  • Select the LN Software Environment (BSE) for which you want to configure the shared memory.
  • Start the Shared Memory Properties dialog.
  • Specify or modify the shared memory properties.
  • Save the changed shared memory properties.
  • Restart the Shared Memory Service.
Note: The Loaded Shared Memory tab shows the loaded shared memory objects. The Shared Memory Areas tab shows a list of the available shared memory areas and their addresses.

To rename BSE environments

Ensure that the BSE environments on your system are unique. You can, therefore, rename environments if required.

To rename a BSE environment:

  • Start the ES Service Manager.
  • Rename a selected BSE environment.

To edit the software environment variables

You can use the Enterprise Server Service Manager to edit the software environment variables to change the behavior of the Enterprise Server.

To edit the software environment variables:

  • Start the ES Service Manager.
  • Start BSE Properties dialog box.
  • Specify the variable name, for example, BSE_SORT.
  • Specify the value of the variable. For example, for the BSE_SORT variable, specify the path to the directory where the temporary data must be stored during the sort process.
  • Save the new variable.