I've encountered a similar issue when restarting the historian from a remote desktop. The service ends when my RDC connection is ended. This caused us a deviation to report on our titleV permit. I do everything with AIM* from the console, except retrieving data. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Sep 3, 2012, at 3:21 PM, "Schouten, Frits JF" <Frits.Schouten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear list, > Is it worth putting a CAR in for the fact the aim* applications don't work > from a Remote Desktop connection? > Running apitst or apispy both come back with the following message: > D:\opt\aim\bin>apispy > > SimSci AIM*API Test Program > AIM*API is not running! > Please restart application after AIM*API is started! > > But it is running and when I run the same 'test' programs from the console, > it's fine. > > So, I went to 'Control Panel' and restarted AIM*API from the Remote Desktop > Connection and all started to work just fine. > I can imagine that all programs using AIM*API are temporary 'disconnected' > when a restart is done. This can't be right. > > Why can't it be like a normal operating system where once a service is > started, it's available to any application from any terminal? > > The above issue is hindering the development of user applications using > Remote Desktop Connection. > > Regards, > Frits Schouten > Principal Engineer > Process Computing Department > Aukland: +64 +9 375 8111 ext 5261 > Waiuku: +64 +9 236 5911 ext 5261 > Mobile: 021 963894 > Email: > Frits.Schouten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Frits.Schouten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > ________________________________ > > > NOTICE - This message and any attached files may contain information that is > confidential, legally privileged or proprietary. It is intended only for use > by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or the > person responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, be > advised that you have received this message in error. Any dissemination, > copying, use or re-transmission of this message or attachment, or the > disclosure of any information therein, is strictly forbidden. BlueScope Steel > Limited does not represent or guarantee that this message or attachment is > free of errors, virus or interference. > > If you have received this message in error please notify the sender > immediately and delete the message. Any views expressed in this email are not > necessarily the views of BlueScope Steel Limited. > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process > Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at > your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html > > foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro > to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join > to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave > _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave