General Purpose Extended Control Services

Extended control services are procedures that perform a software operation related to a resource or component. These services include services for starting and stop the Microsoft IIS Web Server and for starting and stopping specific Windows services. The provisioning software includes two sets of extended control services that are not specific to individual resource types:

• general purpose control services, which can be called by any component or plan

• resource-type-specific control services, which are related to a specific type of resource and that can be called only by components or plans that include resources with those resource types

General purpose control services include the ability to start or stop Windows services. These control services can be called by any component or plan.

An example of a resource-type-specific control service is the startRouter procedure included with the COM+ Application resource type. This procedure starts COM+ routing services. It works only with resources that are of the COM+ Application resource type.

Extended Control Services for IIS

Table 5–47 lists the provisioning software's built-in procedures for controlling IIS.

Table 5–47 Built-in Procedures for Controlling IIS

Name	Parameters	Description
stopIIS	None	Shuts down the IIS process.
startIIS	None	Restarts IIS if it is not running

Extended Control Services for Windows Services

A component or plan may include steps to start or stop specific Windows Services.

Table 5–48 describes provisioning software's built-in procedures for controlling Windows Services.

Table 5–48 Built-in Procedures for Controlling Windows Services

Name	Parameters	Description
stopService	serviceName: Name of the service to stop.	Shuts down the service.
startService	serviceName: Name of the service to start.	Starts the windows service