Ektron
Ektron provides a Windows Service to handle background processing functions. This section explains the service, including
This section also contains the following topics.
The Ektron Windows Service performs the following processes.
In addition, the Ektron Windows Service propagates updates made to the database connection string or the site path in the web.config
file. The service copies the new value to the data.config and sitedb.config files (respectively). These are located in C:\Program Files\Ektron\EktronWindowsservice40
. Any Ektron components that reference these values can retrieve the current information from these files.
WARNING! Do not edit the data.config and sitedb.config files. They are dynamically generated by Ektron. If these files have incorrect values, edit the web.config
file, which is used to generate them.
The update of the data.config and sitedb.config files occurs once a day at a time prescribed in the C:\Program Files\Ektron\EktronWindowsservice30\Ektron.ASM.EktronServices.exe.config
file’s updateTime
value. If desired, you can change this time.
By default, PDF generation is enabled. To disable it within the Ektron Windows Services configuration file:
C:\Program Files\Ektron\EktronWindowsService40.
<add name="PdfFileRead" type="Ektron.ASM.EktronServices.PdfFileManagerRead.PdfFileManagerReadService, Ektron.ASM.EktronServices40" IntervalSeconds="101" Enabled="true" />
enabled
to false
.The Windows Service starts automatically when Ektron is installed, and again whenever the server is restarted.
The service has an Activity Log, which tracks all related events. To see it, go to Computer Management > System Tools > Event Viewer > Ektron Log.
To view detail for any event, double click it.
A common source of errors is that the service cannot find Ektron sites, because they have not been created yet, as shown in the sample below.
On your file system, the Ektron Windows Service is located in C:\Program Files\Ektron\EktronWindowsservice40
. Within that folder, the Ektron.ASM.EktronServices.exe.config file runs the Ektron Windows service.