Managing the Storage SCP Service

You can start and stop the Storage SCP service from within the DICOM Network Services utility. You will typically use the Storage SCP Service Manager after making changes to the Storage SCP Service configuration, or before performing a retrieve operation if you did not select to have the service automatically started at boot time.

Manage the service status from the Storage SCP Service Manager area of the Configuration tab of the DICOM Network Services utility. From this area, you can do the following:

Start Service — click this button to start the service.

Stop Service — click this button to stop the service.

Update Service Status — click this button to verify the current status of the service. Inquiry results are printed in the Status area.

Figure 2-9: Storage SCP Service Manager

Figure 2-9: Storage SCP Service Manager

Note
To avoid potential problems, only start a single Storage SCP Service per machine.

Note
The current Storage SCP Service recognizes and uses the most recently installed version of IDL. Attempting to access the Storage SCP Service with a previous version of IDL will be problematic and is not recommended.

Starting and Stopping the Service Outside the Utility

On Windows, use the Windows Services Administrative tool to start or stop the IDL DicomEx Storage SCP service. To access the Service dialog, select Start

[Settings]

Control Panel

Administrative Tools, and double-click Services in the Administrative Tools list.

On UNIX and Mac OS X, start the service from the command prompt by using the startup script installed in the bin/bin.platform directory of the IDL installation directory where platform is the platform-specific bin directory. To stop the service, use the kill command with the process id of the service (idl_dicom). Use one of the following to return the process id:

ps -aef | grep idl_dicom on Linux

ps -axu | grep idl_dicom on Macintosh OS X

ps -aef | grep idl_dicom on Solaris