Hi Greg,
Glad to help as always!
The service dependency is really important for Agent Instances that connect to an OPC Server. When the instance starts, and the OPC Server has NOT started, the instance itself will try to launch the OPC Server through COM. I suspect that all these services are starting and the OPC Server not being started first is causing some of them to go to an unknown state while trying to get access through COM to "start" the OPC Server service.
The other option for Automatic - Delayed Start is useful as well as it will delay starting any service marked this way until ALL other Automatic services are started.
We have customers that utilize both settings, especially where there are 40-50+ Agent Instances in the PCo configuration.
Regards, Steve
