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>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" > %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>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.