Procedure 2.3. Task

1. Download the Native Utilities package for your architecture.

   32-bit, 64-bit, and Itanium 64-bit packages are available from the Red Hat Customer Portal at https://access.redhat.com. For more information on downloading software from the Red Hat Customer Portal, refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Installation Guide, available here: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/.

2. Unzip the downloaded archive.

   Unzip the archive into a new folder.
   Result: The modules\native\bin\ folder is created.

   The modules\native\bin\ folder contains the files you need to install JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 as a service. These services are part of Procrun, which is a series of wrapper scripts provided by Apache Commons. To learn more about Procrun and its syntax, refer to the following link: http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html.

3. Run the modules\sbin\prunsrv.exe executable.

   prunsrv.exe install path_to_startup_script

   Result

   The service is installed. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is listed in the Services applet services.msc.

4. Manage your service.

   Use the modules\bin\prunmgr.exe executable to manage, edit, add, or delete services. The following command-line options are supported:
   • run
   • service
   • start
   • stop
   • update
   • install
   • delete
   • pause [seconds]
   • version
   • help
   The general syntax is:

   prunmgr.exe command service_name