====ARDI Windows Services====

ARDI runs several services on your system.

These include...

^Service^Description^
|Apache2|Apache is the web service that ARDI uses to deliver web content|
|MySQL|The database backend that ARDI uses to store information|
|Consolidator|One consolidator exists for every site. The consolidator is responsible for distributing live value data|
|Drivers|A service is created for each driver on each site|

===Running As Different Users===

==For Normal Services==

If you need your services to run under a different user account, you configure this the standard way for your non-driver services.

For example, if you need an ARDI web addin to access information located on a domain-authenticated server, you would edit the login details for the **Apache2** service in the **Services** snap-in.

==For Driver Services==

Drivers are different, in that ARDI will regularly remove and re-add driver services as part of general maintenance and back-end updates. This means changing your options in the service configuration will just be temporary.

If you would like drivers to be re-created with the correct login details, you need to modify the **nssm.cfg** file in **c:\program files (x86)\optrix\ardi\drivers**. A sample file is provided.

See more on the [[nssm additional settings file]] to discover how to use it.