Using the Service Features

 
AeTrayMenu was originally developed as a service monitor. Therefore, the program has some special features for this purpose. This topic describes the steps you should follow in order to use these features.

Listing Services

Before you can use the service control/monitoring features, you have to tell AeTrayMenu which services you want to control. You have to do this in the [Services] section.

Service Control

You can define menu items that start/resume, stop, pause and restart services. For this, the service action has been provided. Those menu items will be automagically enabled/disabled when necessary.

Status Indication

AeTrayMenu's tray icon can be changed to reflect the running state of the services you have specified. At intervals set by the ServiceCheckInterval setting in the [Config] section, AeTrayMenu will update its tray icon and the tray icon's hint text.

If you want to control multiple services, it can be handy to put the start, stop etc. menu items for a service in a submenu. For these cases, there's a special kind of submenu available; the servicesubmenu automatically adapts its glyph to the running state of the service it has been linked to.

Other features

There are some other features available that may come in useful when working with services:

See also See Also
[Services] Section
"Service" Action
[Config]: ServiceCheckInterval
[Config]: TrayIcon*Running
[Messages]: *RunningHint
List of Available Actions
[Menu.*] Section
Command-line Parameters