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Administrating the Thoroughbred Manager

The Thoroughbred Manager is administered using the Services dialog box.

  • From the Start menu select Administrative Tools–>Services
  • The Services dialog box will appear
  • Locate and highlight Thoroughbred Manager

Setting the Port

Section titled “Setting the Port”

The Thoroughbred Manager by default uses the telnet port. This is typically port 23.

To change the port:

  • From the Services dialog box locate and highlight Thoroughbred Manager
  • The Services dialog box will appear
  • Locate and highlight Thoroughbred Manager

The Thoroughbred Manager can listen on another port by adding the port number to startup parameters. From the Start menu select Administrative Tools–>Services and open the Thoroughbred Manager Properties. In the “Path to executable” box add the port number.

For example, if you want to listen on port 7000 add -P7000.

C:\Program Files (x86)\TSI\BIN\Tbredcom.exe -P7000

Note there is a space preceding the -P, but no space between -P and the port-number.

Starting the Manager as a Specific User

Section titled “Starting the Manager as a Specific User”
  • From the Services dialog box locate and highlight Thoroughbred Manager
  • Click on Startup
  • Enable This Account and select the desired user account

For more information, please refer to Windows Help available on the Services dialog box.

Stopping and Starting the Thoroughbred Manager

Section titled “Stopping and Starting the Thoroughbred Manager”

The Thoroughbred Manager will start automatically when the computer is started. However, at times it may be necessary to manually start or stop the service.

To stop the Thoroughbred Manager:

  • From the Services dialog box locate and highlight Thoroughbred Manager
  • Click Stop
  • A confirmation prompt will be displayed, click Yes to stop the service or No to cancel the operation
  • When the service has stopped the status column will be blank

To shut down the Thoroughbred Server Manager follow the same instructions described for the Thoroughbred Manager.

To start the Thoroughbred Manager:

  • From the Services dialog box locate and highlight Thoroughbred Manager
  • Click Start
  • When the service has started the status column will read Started

From the TS Environment for Windows Installation Guide, version 8.9.1. Open this page in the PDF