About the ISA Control Service

The ISA control service controls the following ISA functions:

• IP packet filters, including enabling filters, opening static filters, and logging filters.
• Restarting other ISA services as necessary.
• Generating alerts and running actions.
• Synchronizing each server with the server array. The ISA control service updates the client configuration files (msplat.txt and mspclnt.ini) and deletes unused log files.
• Restarting other ISA services when certain changes are made through ISA Management, as described in the ISA Server product documentation.

You cannot use ISA Management to stop or start the ISA Server Control Service. To stop the service, type the following at a command line:

net stop mspadmin

If you stop the ISA Server Control Service, all the other ISA Server services will also be stopped.