Run storeSCP as a service

[Regent]

Hi,

Can we run storescp as a windows service ?

Regards.

Regent.

[Marco Eichelberg]

No, unfortunately you cannot - unless you port the application to the Win32 service API by yourself of course.

[Jörg Riesmeier]

What about SRVANY.EXE?

[meyer]

NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager nicely does the trick.

nssm.exe is a tiny executable that installs itself as a Windows service and runs whatever process you want as a child process.

To create a service DCMDump7777 running storescp listening on port 7777 and dumping everything to a directory, call:

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nssm install DCMDump7777 "C:\Program Files\ToolsDICOM\dcmtk-3.6.7-win64-dynamic\bin\storescp.exe"
nssm set DCMDump7777 AppParameters "7777 -fe .dcm"
nssm set DCMDump7777 AppDirectory "C:\TMP\DCMDUMP"

I had tried this with srvany before, but stumbled over its shortcomings. nssm is tiny, clean and really gets the job done.