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Services can be started and stopped from remote desktop or ssh with the service browser.

== Using the Service Browser on Windows ==
To start the service manager log in to remote desktop and click on Start > Programs > TCAdmin > Service Browser.

=== Start/Stop a Service ===
* Select the service from the list and click on the start/stop/restart toolbar button.

=== View Interactive Services ===
* Select the service from the list. Then click on the "Show Interactive Service" toolbar button.
* The service's console should be visible so you can troubleshoot it. If your server is running Windows 7/2008 you should see a prompt asking if you want to view a message from an interactive service. Click on "Show the message". 

[[File:WindowsServiceBrowser.png]]

== Using the Service Browser on Linux ==
To start the service manager log in to ssh and execute the following commands. Replace "/Path/To/TCAdmin/Monitor" with the path to your TCAdmin Monitor folder.

 cd /Path/To/TCAdmin/Monitor
 ./servicebrowser

=== Start/Stop a Service ===
* Select the service from the list and click on the start/stop/restart button.

[[File:LinuxServiceBrowser.png]]

== Commandline Parameters ==
The service browser can be used from the commandline to start, stop and restart a service.

; service
: Specify the service id that you want to control. You can specify "all" to execute the command on all services.

; command
: Specify the command to execute. Valid commands are:
* stop : Stops the specified service.
* start : Starts the specified service.
* restart : Restarts the specified service.
* write : Writes to the specified service's console. If the server has Linux the option "Control console's input" must be enabled in the game's settings.

=== Examples ===
* Stop the service with id 2 (Windows)
 TCAdminServiceBrowser.exe -service=2 -command=stop

* Stop the service with id 2 (Linux)
 ./servicebrowser -service=2 -command=stop

* Writes "quit" to service's console (Linux)
 ./servicebrowser -service=2 -command=write -write=quit

* Writes "say hello world" to service's console (Linux). '''Notice double quotes need to be escaped (\")'''
 ./servicebrowser -service=2 -command=write -write=\"say hello world\"

* Writes "say hello world" to service's console (Windows).
 TCAdminServiceBrowser.exe -service=2 -command=write -write="say hello world"