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Case

You would like to start a Mule ESB instance as an NT service, under a Windows server. You would also like to give a specific name and description

Fix

• add an environment variable MULE_HOME, with value the path of Mule install, for instance: C:\jonathan\mule-standalone-3.0.1
• edit the file %MULE_HOME%\conf\wrapper.conf
• replace the following properties default values:

  wrapper.ntservice.name=%MULE_APP%
  wrapper.ntservice.displayname=%MULE_APP_LONG%
  wrapper.ntservice.description=%MULE_APP_LONG%

• (you can also set other properties related to NT service configuration)
• launch the command:

%MULE_HOME%\bin\mule.bat install -config %MULE_HOME%\bin\mule-conf.xml

• then you can see in the administration services that the service has started
• to remove the service, only launch the following command

%MULE_HOME%\bin\mule.bat remove

Known issue:

On certain installations (among them the servers on which CygWin is installed), a conflict may happen between the files %MULE_HOME%\bin\mule (standard launcher for Unix and Linux) and %MULE_HOME%\bin\mule.bat (standard launcher for Windows). In this case, rename %MULE_HOME%\bin\mule as %MULE_HOME%\bin\mule.OLD