The CAS Service is a servlet container that runs the CAS Server, the Component Instance Manager, any number of Dimension Value Id Managers (one per application), and any number of Record Store instances (one per data source).

On Windows, the CAS installation program starts the service automatically and the service is set to restart automatically during system restarts. If you accept the installation defaults, the service runs on port 8500. The following image shows the components running within the CAS Service:

In the Windows Services console, the service displays as CAS Service. The service is running cas-service-wrapper.exe in <install path>\CAS\<version>\bin.

On UNIX, you can start CAS Service using cas-service.sh located in <install path>/CAS/<version>/bin and stop it using cas-service-shutdown.sh. Or if you set up the service in inittab.