Control Service Action

The Control Service action starts, stops, pauses or resumes the selected Windows service. This option also caters for service dependency and stops or restarts associated services if required.

Multiple Control Service actions can be added to a single rule to stop and restart or pause and resume a service.

Service Parameters section

Service

The Service parameter allows selection of the service to be controlled by this action.

Use Criteria Service: Selects the service specified in the rule criteria as the service on which the action is performed.
Use This Service: From the drop-down choice menu, select a different service, from those currently available on this device.

Action

Select the action to perform on the service. Select from Start, Stop, Pause or Resume.

Timeout

For all control actions other than Start Service, select the period of time, in seconds, for the selected action to be successful, after which the attempt fails. The default time period is 30 seconds.

Stop Dependent Services

If the Stop Service action has been selected in the Action parameter, check this option to also stop any other services that are dependent on the selected service running.

Click OK to confirm the action.