Windows command to get service status

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I need to know the status of a service at the end of my batch script which restarts services using  net stop thingie  and  net start thingie    In my most favorite ideal world  I would like to e-mail the state to myself  to read on cold winter nights  to reassure myself with the warmth and comfort of a server that I know is running right   Just for you to know  I m using a Windows server 2003 platform  and a batch file seemed the best choice  I don t mind using something else  and would be very open to suggestions  but just for the sake of knowledge  as a zombie craves brains  I thought  why not inflate my own   is there a command that allows me to check on the status of a service  in command line   Should I just redirect the output of the command to a file   Where the hell are my pants   Gosh  I really do hope the humor inserted in this will not insult anyone  It s Wednesday morning  and humor I do need too  P    Edit   The solution I used is  no longer  available for download from --link redacted--  It is used as a task set to be executed during the night  and checking my e-mail in the morning  I see whether or not the service has correctly restarted

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Ros the code i post also is for knowing how many services are running...

Imagine you want to know how many services are like Oracle* then you put Oracle instead of NameOfSercive... and you get the number of services like Oracle* running on the variable %CountLines% and if you want to do something if there are only 4 you can do something like this:

IF 4==%CountLines% GOTO FourServicesAreRunning

That is much more powerfull... and your code does not let you to know if desired service is running ... if there is another srecive starting with same name... imagine: -ServiceOne -ServiceOnePersonal

If you search for ServiceOne, but it is only running ServiceOnePersonal your code will tell ServiceOne is running...

My code can be easly changed, since it reads all lines of the file and read line by line it can also do whatever you want to each service... see this:

@ECHO OFF
REM Put here any code to be run before check for Services

SET TemporalFile=TemporalFile.TXT
NET START > %TemporalFile%
SET CountLines=0
FOR /F "delims=" %%X IN (%TemporalFile%) DO SET /A CountLines=1+CountLines
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
SET CountLine=0
FOR /F "delims=" %%X IN (%TemporalFile%) DO @(
 SET /A CountLine=1+CountLine

 REM Do whatever you want to each line here, remember first and last are special not service names

 IF 1==!CountLine! (

   REM Do whatever you want with special first line, not a service.

 ) ELSE IF %CountLines%==!CountLine! (

   REM Do whatever you want with special last line, not a service.

 ) ELSE (

   REM Do whatever you want with rest lines, for each service.
   REM    For example echo its position number and name:

   echo !CountLine! - %%X

   REM    Or filter by exact name (do not forget to not remove the three spaces at begining):
   IF "   NameOfService"=="%%X" (

     REM Do whatever you want with Service filtered.

   )
 )

 REM Do whatever more you want to all lines here, remember two first are special as last one

)

DEL -P %TemporalFile% 2>nul
SET TemporalFile=

REM Put here any code to be run after check for Services

Of course it only list running services, i do not know any way net can list not running services...

Hope this helps!!!

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my intention was to create a script which switches services ON and OFF  in 1 script    net start NameOfSercive 2 gt nul if errorlevel 2 goto AlreadyRunning if errorlevel 1 goto Error             Helped a lot   TYVM z666  but when e g  service is disabled also errorlevel  2  it goes to  AlreadyRuning and never comes to   if errorlevel 1 goto Error         i wanted an output for that case         AlreadyRunning  net stop NameOfSercive  if errorlevel 1 goto Error     Error  Echo ERROR  1   Pause    my 2 Cents  hope this helps

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Well I m not sure about whether you can email the results of that from a batch file  If I may make an alternate suggestion that would solve your problem vbscript  I am far from great with vbscript but you can use it to query the services running on the local machine  The script below will email you the status of all of the services running on the machine the script gets run on  You ll obviously want to replace the smtp server and the email address  If you re part of a domain and you run this script as a privileged user  they have to be an administrator on the remote machine  you can query remote machines as well by replacing localhost with the fqdn   Dim objComputer  objMessage Dim strEmail    If there is an error getting the status of a service it will attempt to move on to the next one On Error Resume Next    Email Setup Set objMessage   CreateObject  CDO Message   objMessage Subject    Service Status Report  objMessage From    service report noreply net  objMessage To    youraddress example net  objMessage Configuration Fields Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration sendusing     2   Name or IP of Remote SMTP Server objMessage Configuration Fields Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration smtpserver      smtp example net    Server port  typically 25  objMessage Configuration Fields Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration smtpserverport     25  Set objComputer   GetObject  WinNT   localhost   objComputer Filter   Array  Service    For Each aService In objComputer strEmail   strEmail  amp chr 10   amp  aService Name  amp       amp  aService Status Next  objMessage TextBody   strEmail objMessage Configuration Fields Update objMessage Send   Hope this helps you  Enjoy   Edit  Ahh one more thing a service status of 4 means the service is running  a service status of 1 means it s not  I m not sure what 2 or 3 means but I m willing to bet they are stopping starting

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Well i see  Nick Kavadias  telling this       according to this http   www computerhope com nethlp htm it should be NET START  LIST        If you type in Windows XP this   NET START  LIST   you will get an error  just type instead   NET START   The  LIST is only for Windows 2000    If you fully read such web you would see the  LIST is only on Windows 2000 section   Hope this helps

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Maybe this could be the best way to start a service and check the result  Of course from inside a Batch like File BAT put something like this example but just replace  NameOfSercive  with the service name you want and replace the REM lines with your own code    ECHO OFF  REM Put whatever your Batch may do before trying to start the service  net start NameOfSercive 2 gt nul if errorlevel 2 goto AlreadyRunning if errorlevel 1 goto Error  REM Put Whatever you want in case Service was not running and start correctly  GOTO ContinueWithBatch   AlreadyRunning REM Put Whatever you want in case Service was already running GOTO ContinueWithBatch   Error REM Put Whatever you want in case Service fail to start GOTO ContinueWithBatch   ContinueWithBatch  REM Put whatever else your Batch may do   Another thing is to check for its state without changing it  for that there is a much more simple way to do it  just run   net start   As that  without parameters it will show a list with all services that are started      So a simple grep or find after it on a pipe would fit      Of course from inside a Batch like File BAT put something like this example but just replace  NameOfSercive  with the service name you want and replace the REM lines with your own code    ECHO OFF  REM Put here any code to be run before check for Service  SET TemporalFile TemporalFile TXT NET START   FIND  N  NameOfSercive   gt   TemporalFile  SET CountLines 0 FOR  F   X IN   TemporalFile   DO SET  A CountLines 1 CountLines IF 0   CountLines  GOTO ServiceIsNotRunning  REM Put here any code to be run if Service Is Running  GOTO ContinueWithBatch   ServiceIsNotRunning  REM Put here any code to be run if Service Is Not Running  GOTO ContinueWithBatch  ContinueWithBatch DEL -P  TemporalFile  2 gt nul SET TemporalFile   REM Put here any code to be run after check for Service   Hope this can help   It is what i normally use

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Using Windows Script   Set ComputerObj   GetObject  WinNT   MYCOMPUTER       ComputerObj Filter   Array  Service       For Each Service in ComputerObj         WScript Echo  Service display name      amp  Service DisplayName         WScript Echo  Service account name      amp  Service ServiceAccountName         WScript Echo  Service executable        amp  Service Path         WScript Echo  Current status            amp  Service Status     Next   You can easily filter the above for the specific service you want

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Using pstools - in particular psservice and  query  - for example   psservice query  serviceName

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You can call net start  service name  on your service  If it s not started  it ll start it and return errorlevel 0  if it s already started it ll return errorlevel 2

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look also hier   NET START   FIND  Service name    nul    IF errorlevel 1 ECHO The service is not running  just copied from  http   ss64 com nt sc html

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Have you tried sc exe   C   gt  for  f  tokens 2    a in   sc query audiosrv    findstr STATE   do echo  b 4  RUNNING  C   gt  for  f  tokens 2    a in   sc query sharedaccess    findstr STATE   do echo  b 1  STOPPED   Note that inside a batch file you d double each percent sign

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according to this http   www computerhope com nethlp htm it should be NET START  LIST  but i can t get it to work on by XP box   I m sure there s some WMI that will give you the list

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If PowerShell is available to you     Get-Service -DisplayName  Network    ForEach-Object Write-Host    Status      Name    Will give you     Stopped   napagent Stopped   NetDDE Stopped   NetDDEdsdm Running   Netman Running   Nla Stopped   WMPNetworkSvc Stopped   xmlprov   You can replace the     Network     with a specific service name if you just need to check one service

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