SSM: Simple Service Manager

Run any Windows application as a Service, an NSSM alternative

Features:

• .NET 9 alternative of NSSM (the Non-Sucking Service Manager), srvany and other service helper programs.
• Automatically handles failure of the application running as a service.
• Continuously monitors the Windows application status.
• If says it's running, it really is.
• Service automatically stops if the launched application exits.
• Service Logs all errors in log files to help troubleshoot the issues.

Added new features in v1.1.0

• Additional parameters "AppParams".
• Restart App Automatically "RestartAppAutomatically".
• Restart Delay "RestartDelay".
• In addition to .exe files, can run both .bat and .ps1 fields as well.

Download

• Download from the link Release V1.1.0

Installation

• Extract SimpleServiceManager.zip in an accessible folder on your system.

• Modify the appsettings.json file with the path to your Application.exe which you want to run as service

{
  "Configs": {
    "AppPath": "<Filepath>\\TestAPI.exe",  // can not be null
    "AppParams": "",  // "param1 param2 param3 param4 param5",
    "RestartAppAutomatically": false, // can not be null
    "RestartDelay": 5000 // can not be null. Min 1000 ms
  }
}

• Install it as a service from an Elevated (Administrator) Command Prompt:

sc create "MyServiceName" obj= LocalService start= auto binPath= "C:\Path\To\SimpleServiceManager.exe"
sc description MyServiceName "My services description"
sc start MyServiceName

Note the spaces between start=, binPath= and their parameters. This is intended.

Uninstallation

sc stop MyServiceName
sc delete MyServiceName