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Downloads:
631,487
Downloads of v 2.24.101.20180116:
443,909
Last Update:
16 Jan 2018
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Iain Patterson
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NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager
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Downloads:
631,487
Downloads of v 2.24.101.20180116:
443,909
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Iain Patterson
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To install NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
NOTE: This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://chocolatey.org/api/v2. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
-
Open Source
- Download the Package Download
- Follow manual internalization instructions
-
Package Internalizer (C4B)
- Run
choco download nssm --internalize --source=https://chocolatey.org/api/v2
(additional options) - Run
choco push --source="'http://internal/odata/repo'"
for package and dependencies - Automate package internalization
- Run
3. Enter your internal repository url
(this should look similar to https://chocolatey.org/api/v2)
4. Choose your deployment method:
choco upgrade nssm -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade nssm -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Ensure nssm installed
win_chocolatey:
name: nssm
state: present
version: 2.24.101.20180116
source: STEP 3 URL
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
Coming early 2020! Central Managment Reporting available now! More information...
chocolatey_package 'nssm' do
action :install
version '2.24.101.20180116'
source 'STEP 3 URL'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
Chocolatey::Ensure-Package
(
Name: nssm,
Version: 2.24.101.20180116,
Source: STEP 3 URL
);
Requires Otter Chocolatey Extension. See docs at https://inedo.com/den/otter/chocolatey.
cChocoPackageInstaller nssm
{
Name = 'nssm'
Ensure = 'Present'
Version = '2.24.101.20180116'
Source = 'STEP 3 URL'
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'nssm':
provider => 'chocolatey',
ensure => '2.24.101.20180116',
source => 'STEP 3 URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
salt '*' chocolatey.install nssm version="2.24.101.20180116" source="STEP 3 URL"
See docs at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html.
5. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
This package was approved as a trusted package on 11 Jul 2020.
nssm is a service helper which doesn't suck. srvany and other service helper programs suck because they don't handle failure of the application running as a service. If you use such a program you may see a service listed as started when in fact the application has died. nssm monitors the running service and will restart it if it dies. With nssm you know that if a service says it's running, it really is. Alternatively, if your application is well-behaved you can configure nssm to absolve all responsibility for restarting it and let Windows take care of recovery actions.
nssm logs its progress to the system Event Log so you can get some idea of why an application isn't behaving as it should.
Features
- GUI and CLI interface
- Configurable action when application exits: restart, ignore, exit, suicide
- Manage native services
- Rotate output files from the monitored application
- Set the monitored application's priority class and CPU affinity
- UAC aware
- Unicode support
- Works under Windows 2000 or later. Specifically, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 are supported, x32 and x64 bit versions.
Licence
-------
NSSM is public domain. You may unconditionally use it and/or its source code
for any purpose you wish.
VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.
Package is downloaded from https://www.nssm.cc/download and can be verified like this:
1. Go to
x32: https://www.nssm.cc/ci/nssm-2.24-101-g897c7ad.zip
to download the installer.
2. You can use one of the following methods to obtain the SHA256 checksum:
- Use powershell function 'Get-FileHash'
- Use Chocolatey utility 'checksum.exe'
checksum32: 99F5045FFFBFFB745D67FE3A065A953C4A3D9C253B868892D9B685B0EE7D07B8
File 'License.txt' is obtained from:
https://git.nssm.cc/?p=nssm.git;a=blob;f=README.txt;h=12db7e88a4cd83edb7023b2b92e7d3d5eabf1175;hb=HEAD#l882
# If some nssm service is up and running, kill it so that exe can be updated
Get-Process nssm.exe -ea 0 | Stop-Process -Force
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$toolsDir = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
if ((Get-OSArchitectureWidth 64) -and $env:chocolateyForceX86 -ne 'true') {
Write-Host "Installing 64 bit version"; $is64 = $true
} else { Write-Host "Installing 32 bit version"}
$packageArgs = @{
PackageName = 'nssm'
FileFullPath = Get-Item $toolsDir\*.zip
Destination = $toolsDir
}
Get-ChildItem $toolsDir\* | Where-Object { $_.PSISContainer } | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force #remove older package dirs
Get-ChocolateyUnzip @packageArgs
$source = if ($is64) { 'win64' } else { 'win32' }
Copy-Item $toolsDir\nssm-*\$source\nssm.exe $toolsDir
Remove-Item -Force $toolsDir\nssm*.zip -ea 0
Remove-Item -Recurse $toolsDir\nssm-*
md5: 63175D3830B8A5CFD254353C4F561E5C | sha1: CA2F6782A05AF85FACF9B620E047B01271EDD11D | sha256: 99F5045FFFBFFB745D67FE3A065A953C4A3D9C253B868892D9B685B0EE7D07B8 | sha512: F25FCC7B37D64AA3BB44336182A343250BF7FE7DF1D22795BC742AE1CCE574D9BBBB22AFE2BA4352DF40676E54F8442AE2DC1516C58A7B42C6E5C464804CD342
Log in or click on link to see number of positives.
- nssm-2.24-101-g897c7ad.zip (99f5045fffbf) - ## / 60
- nssm.exe (682f1025b4c4) - ## / 68
- nssm.exe (eee9c44c29c2) - ## / 67
- NSSM.2.24.101.20180116.nupkg (6c6b1e287fb2) - ## / 60
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.
Version | Downloads | Last Updated | Status |
---|---|---|---|
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.24.101.20180116 | 443909 | Tuesday, January 16, 2018 | Approved |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.24.101 | 8304 | Monday, December 25, 2017 | Approved |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.24.101-g897c7ad | 1997 | Monday, June 19, 2017 | Approved |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.24.0.20170619 | 61058 | Monday, June 19, 2017 | Approved |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.24.0.20161223 | 41073 | Friday, December 23, 2016 | Approved |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.24.0.20161221 | 1238 | Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Approved |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.24.0 | 66372 | Sunday, September 14, 2014 | Approved |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.21.1.0 | 5137 | Thursday, December 12, 2013 | Unknown |
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager 2.16.0 | 2399 | Monday, September 23, 2013 | Unknown |
© Iain Patterson
This package has no dependencies.
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