For Windward System Five installations greater than 3 servers, it is recommended to use a Client-Server model. The Pervasive software is loaded to the server and the Pervasive Engine (controlling read and write access to the database) runs as a service.

To determine if the Pervasive server is running, use the Windows Run Command or right click on My Computer and select Manage then select services and applications. Figure 1 shows how to run the command to bring up the services window.

Figure 1 - Run services.msc command

There are two Pervasive Services that should be set as 'Started', they are the Pervasive PSQL Relational engine and the Pervasive PSQL Transactional Engine. Figure 2 shows the two Pervasive engines in a Windows Server services list (services.msc).

Figure 2 - Windows Server services list with the two Pervasive servicies 'Started'