Overview

The NotePager Net service manager (pagegate.exe) runs on all computers that run a portion of the NotePager Net Server application (except NPN Admin, NPN Monitor, or the NotePager Net Client). It runs in the background whenever the NotePager Net application is active. The service manager can run as an application, a Windows 9x service, or a Windows NT service. It is responsible for starting and stopping all the other server modules. If NotePager Net is setup to run as a Windows NT system service, it is the only module set to start automatically (it will start the other modules). This is the only server module that should ever have more than one instance running (only if NotePager Net is installed across multiple machines).

When NotePager Net is running as an application or Windows 9x service, the NotePager Net service manager's icon (small pager) will appear in the Windows system tray (bottom right corner of the screen, next to the clock). Note: the NPN Admin and NPN Monitor programs can easily be started by clicking on this icon. Quitting the icon when NotePager Net is running as an application or Windows 9x service will stop the NotePager Net Server application. If the NotePager Net service manager is running as a Windows NT system service, a separate application (PGSystray.exe) runs in the windows system tray to provide the icon and popup menu. This program gives similar functionality as the pager icon when NotePager Net is running as an application or Windows 9x service. However, stopping this program has no effect on the rest of NotePager Net.