Services elligence Needs

MDsuite uses several Services to perform a wide array of background tasks, and to interact between client and server computers. A service is a program that runs in the background and performs various tasks. In order to send data from the server to the workstation, the MDsuite Application Server requires the following services:

Internet Information Services - IIS

This is the core Microsoft service that can power a variety of Internet, Email, and FTP applications.

World Wide Web Publishing Service - w3svc

This service turns an ordinary computer into a webserver of sorts. It listens for requests, and sends out data in response. It depends upon IIS, so if IIS has a problem, then this service won't work. MDsuite uses this to send data from the server to the client.

Microsoft SQL Server - MSSQLServer

This service provides the back-end for the system that MDsuite uses to store data. You can get this service by installing either MSDE or Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

MDsuite Support Service - elligSupSvc

The MDsuite Support Service handles various "background" tasks in MDsuite. You can still log in if it isn't running, but you can't send EDI files, interface with EMRs or other HL-7 applications, or run your scheduled collections assignment.

Except in very rare circumstances, all of these services should be running on your server at all times. When you install MDsuite, they will be set to automatically begin running when the server starts.