You can set up PingFederate to run in the background as a service on either Windows or Linux.

Tip:

If you have installed PingFederate using one of the platform-specific installers, PingFederate has already been configured to run as a service and started automatically at the end of the installation process.

Important:

In the event that you want to stop the PingFederate service and start PingFederate manually, you must run the startup script under the same user account that the service uses.