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Where 'start' and 'end' represent the port number range within which the PI Service must find an available port. To fix the PI Service to a single port enter the same number twice.
Initializing the FEWS PI Service
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as a backend process
It is also possible to initialize the FEWS PI Service as a backend process. This is doen by starting a regular Operator Client application, but then without a user interface.
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This backend FEWS PI Service does not use the Explorer configuration, as described above, to obtain the listener port number. This is to avoid port conflicts when a client FEWS PI Service is started on the same machine as a backend FEWS PI Service or when multiple instance of a backend FEWS PI Service are running on the same machine. Instead the backend FEWS PI Service obtains its listener port from the global.properties files, using the entry:
PiServicePort=2001
When not configured the value defaults to 2001.
Example code
Here follows some example code of how client applications can set up a connection the PI Service of a running FEWS OC.
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