What is the Discoverer NT Service?
When you install Discoverer, the Discoverer NT service is created as an automatic NT Service called “OracleDiscoverer4i”. The Discoverer NT service automatically starts the Discoverer Services Locator component and the CORBA services whenever the NT machine is started. Using the Discoverer NT service, you can also stop all of these components by simply stopping the service from running. A key benefit of having Discoverer Services Locator component and the CORBA services components started as a single NT service is that you do not need to remain logged onto a machine for the service (and therefore the Locator and the CORBA services) to stay running. If you launched each component individually on each machine, you would need to stay logged onto the machine(s) as the administrator. Logging off would automatically stop the components. The Discoverer NT service runs the appropriate components based on the type of server you selected when installing Discoverer. The following table shows the
