nscontrol Utility
The nscontrol utility is a command prompt utility for administering Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services. It provides commands for deploying, configuring, monitoring, and controlling Notification Services instances and applications.
Note
You can develop your own applications for performing many functions of the nscontrol commands. For more information, see the reference for the Instance class in the Server Management Objects for Notification Services.
Syntax Conventions
The following rules apply to all commands of the nscontrol utility:
- Commands and arguments are not case-sensitive.
- Precede command arguments with either a hyphen (-) or a forward slash (/). These symbols are equivalent to one another.
- Include a space between the argument and its value.
- Enclose in quotation marks (") any value that contains a space.
nscontrol Commands
The following commands are available in nscontrol.
| Topic | Description |
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Creates the instance and application databases for a new instance of Notification Services. |
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Deletes the instance and application databases for an existing instance of Notification Services. |
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Disables the specified Notification Services components. |
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Displays the key used to encrypt delivery channel and event provider arguments. |
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Enables the specified Notification Services components. |
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Exports metadata from the instance and application databases and creates one XML instance configuration file (ICF) and one XML application definition files (ADFs) per application. |
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Displays information about the installed versions and registered instances of Notification Services. |
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Updates the information in the msdb database for the specified instance of Notification Services. |
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Creates or updates registry entries for an instance of Notification Services optionally create a Windows service and performance counters for the instance. |
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Displays the current enabled or disabled status of instances and applications. |
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Removes the registry information for the instance as well as the Windows service and performance counters, if they exist. |
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Compares the metadata in the ICF and the ADFs to the metadata in the instance and application databases, and then optionally update the databases for any differences that it finds. |
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Upgrades an instance of Notification Services that was created using an older version of the product to the current version or from an earlier edition to the current edition. |
See Also
Reference
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Nmo
Other Resources
Administering Notification Services
Deploying Notification Services