Hi elevate-professionals,

is it possible to check if the edbsrv is running in network within a installation routine?

Now in version 2.05 b10 is a elementary fix that I need in my application. I have to install a new version of the EDBServer on the customers machines. Not all my customers (more than 500) use the edbserver.
I use InnoSetup for my setup routines, is there a possibility to find out if edbserver is running (e.g. sending a ping to the port etc.) and send a close command to that process?

It´s quite difficult for me to explain, I hope you will understand what I mean.

Michael

The way that seems easiest (to me) to do this is just to try to connect to the server (!) ... if you get back a positive response then edbsrvr is running.

i.e in a Delphi app run a bit of code like:

 try
   MyEDBSession.connected:= true;
 except
   //if this except gets called then there is no EDBSrvr!
 end;

it would be a very short job to write a little EXE to do this ... though it would be a bit heavy handed.

Within in Inno Setup you might be able to pick this up in one of the scripts you can build to run exe's etc., I haven't used Inno to that level ... in your position I might do that whole part of the install under the control of the EXE which had detected the EDBSrvr in the first place.

Adam,

Thank you for your tipp. I think you are right, this will be the easiest way to find out that a server is running.

If someone have another idea how I can do that, I´m happy to hear your ideas.

Michael

Adam Brett wrote:

The way that seems easiest (to me) to do this is just to try to connect to the server (!) ... if you get back a positive response then edbsrvr is running.

i.e in a Delphi app run a bit of code like:

 try
   MyEDBSession.connected:= true;
 except
   //if this except gets called then there is no EDBSrvr!
 end;

it would be a very short job to write a little EXE to do this ... though it would be a bit heavy handed.

Within in Inno Setup you might be able to pick this up in one of the scripts you can build to run exe's etc., I haven't used Inno to that level ... in your position I might do that whole part of the install under the control of the EXE which had detected the EDBSrvr in the first place.

Michael,

just out of interest: what will you do after having terminated the
EDB-server? How do you find out where in the network the server is
running (maybe as a service) in order to reinstall it?

That seems to be a common problem - I always did it manually by remote
support.

Regards Uli

Michael,

<< I use InnoSetup for my setup routines, is there a possibility to find out
if edbserver is running (e.g. sending a ping to the port etc.) and send a
close command to that process? >>

Not currently, no.  However, once the web interface to the EDB Server is
complete, you'll be able to interactively control the EDB Server process
itself, and from there I can see about providing a URL version of such a
request.

However, all of this will require that you call an .exe from your Inno Setup
script, and that .exe will do all of this work with the server.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com