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Network Analysis Tip of the Month – May 2005

Omni DNX Engine Service Scripts and more!

Author – Saurabh Bhasin

I’ve always found the process of exploring through the Start menu -> Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Services to be an over assumption of a user’s familiarity with Windows navigation menus and clicking abilities to arrive at another menu just to start or stop a Windows Service.

Unfortunately, you have had to go through the above mentioned procedure to get to the Omni DNX Engine Service. Read on and change your life forever. There’s a faster way that will save you a few seconds and increase the click life of your mouse!

Fire up notepad and call the file “Peek DNX Start.bat” (the .bat extension is very important as it creates a Windows Batch file). Type the following line “net start peekdnx” and save the file to your desktop. Repeat the same procedure and create another file called “Peek DNX Stop.bat”. You guessed it; the command that goes in the second file is “net stop peekdnx”.

For Advanced Users:

You can take this a step further and add these in your OmniPeek’s Tools menu for direct access from within OmniPeek. Under Tools -> Customize, Click on “Insert”. Type the following to create an entry for starting the DNX Engine:

• Menu Context - Peek DNX Start
• Command - C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe
• Arguments – start peekdnx
• Initial directory – leave this blank

Leave all other options untouched and click on “Ok” and go back to the Tools menu to see your recently created link! Repeat the above steps for a link to stop the service but replace the start with “stop” in the arguments. Look at the following screenshot for an example: