# Ignition Gateway Startup **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896 "2013-07-19T14:06:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ceidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@ceidson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ceidson)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896/1 "2013-07-19T14:06:29Z")
Is there a way to see when Ignition is up and running and it is ok to open a project? I am trying to open a project at startup (on the gateway pc), but the gateway is not ready yet. I wrote an application to launch the project only after I saw the Ignition service is running, but this does not work. The service is running, but I get a web page window that says the “Context state is: STARTING.” I get this message until the Ignition Gateway Control Utility shows “Gateway is running.” “Web Server is started” seems to correlate with the Ignition service. ---
**Author:** ![mgross](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mgross/32/3311_2.png) [@mgross](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mgross)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896/2 "2013-07-19T15:03:10Z")
Yeah, the Ignition service actually starts a Tomcat server, but Ignition is a web app that takes some time to load within the web server. To alleviate situations like this, we are currently building a new feature in Ignition that will actually wait for a Gateway to become available and then launch a project that you specify. It will be a native executable so you can actually set up a service to run it upon startup. ---
**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896/3 "2013-07-19T16:03:56Z")
In the mean time, here is something similar to avoid the problem, submitted by a 3rd party: [Ignition project launcher](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=9512&p=32940) To more directly answer your question, though, the GCU gets its information by checking “[http://localhost:8088/main/StatusPing](http://localhost:8088/main/StatusPing)” That will return a very simple JSON string, like [tt]{“state”:“RUNNING”}[/tt] Regards, ---
**Author:** ![ceidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@ceidson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ceidson)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896/4 "2013-07-19T20:26:58Z")
Thanks, I’ll give that a try. ---
**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896/5 "2013-08-19T16:07:09Z")
I’m interested by this features to auto start a project. what is the release you targeted for this feature and the approximative release date ? ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896/6 "2013-08-19T18:43:49Z")
I think the native client launchers will be released in a month or so… ---
**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-startup/6896/7 "2013-08-21T06:34:20Z")
Nice 😃