Yes, things work fine if I start it manually.
The only process that is running on this machine is a "Server" process. Pretty big from what I've seen that Lookout can manage, it has over 5000 database tags (and crashes about once every two weeks, almost on schedule). We converted to Lookout from Intellution FIX a couple of years ago (don't ask me why, it was some kind of administrative decision I have yet to discern), and since that time, we have had nothing but problems.
We're running Lookout 5.1, and have no intention of upgrading to 6, due to our history with 5.0 and 5.1 to this point. If there was going to be additional effort spent in upgrading things, we'd definitely move back off of Lookout, to something more reliable.
Reason I want to do this is so that I can restart things, or make modifications to the operations remotely. Since I have to restart things currently from the local console, I have to walk to the Server room to work on the machine currently, I'd rather work from my office, with one of the client machines right next to me so I can view the results as I go.
David Dudley