Running Cirrus as a service

Question

Does anyone have a way to run Cirrus Configuration Management as a service? We have multuple network engineers and would like to run this tool without having someone logged into the server it runs on..... We force logouts on all systems after the session is idle for 2 hours. Hard to back up configs overnight when the tool is not running.
Is this something that might be in the works for the next version of the tool? The IP Management tool could benefit from this as well.

jrichards04 · Answer

Looks to be a group policy setting that is keeping the tasks from being added. I will install at home to see if it runs from there and see if I can break our security model at work to get task scheduler operational again.

jrichards04 · Answer

I have successfully gotten the IP Management tool to run using srvany. The key is to use an account to start the service. Do not run it as system. You must launch the application logged in as that account so that the application settings are associated with that profile.  
I am able to publish to a separate web server using the service as well. We typically do not have anyone in the application, everyone uses the web page for IP address information so this works great for us.

I would still like more information on whether Cirrus will have some sort of ability to run as a service at least for the scheduler/config downloads. Thanks

ceclark · Answer

You don't need to be logged into the app for it to run. You need to schedule a job to back up your configs. Go throught the wizard like process and that's it. You should read the manual as it goes through this process in detail.