Running fredhopper as a service

Question

Currently after every system restart we are running Fredhopper by starting deployment agent and then starting indexer.

is there any way to configure fredhopper as a service so that is should restart automatically whenever system restarts.

Answer 1

There are no Windows services delivered with Fredhopper.

Fredhopper recommends using the Windows Task Scheduler to start the deployment agent. They have a page on their Learning Center to help you with that (requires login). That is what I typically do and have not have any issues with it.

There is no mention of the indexer or other processes, but presumably you can use the same mechanism -- but only once the deployment agent is up and running.

You could try other solutions that people have for running any program as a service, such as NSSM, SrvAny, etc. I don't know how well they work.