Check service on remote pc

[TheBG]

anyone know of an easy to way to check a specific service on a remote pc?

I'm wanting to create a small app that with query a defined service on a network pc. Would need to know if it's running or not, and then have a ability to start-stop-restart the service.

[Mecrazycoder]

anyone know of an easy to way to check a specific service on a remote pc?

I'm wanting to create a small app that with query a defined service on a network pc. Would need to know if it's running or not, and then have a ability to start-stop-restart the service.

I am thinking this can be done by TCP. First establish a TCP connection to remote system and then start/stop the services.

[jvanegmond]

TheBG, some more information for you. There's no need to write a fully custom implementation like Mecrazycoder suggested, many of this stuff has already been built. (You didn't think you were the first that needed to control remote services, right?).

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=91800

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22165

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16854

(In order of importance)

[water]

You could use WMI.

The examle using the command line version of WMI lists all services with startmode and state on a remote pc.

Wmic /node:<Name of PC> or <IP> /user:<Userid> /password:<password> service get caption, name, startmode, state

This post uses WMI to check the services on the local machine but it shouldn't be like brain surgery to extend it.

Or look here or search the forum archive.

Edited September 17, 2009 by water

[TheBG]

Thanks for all the suggestions:

I have a semi working app now.

Just having issues with checking status on certain services. I'm using the ServiceControl.au3.

But I'm getting false positives when checking certain services. I'm guess it's because the service does not respond to SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE commands that is used by ServiceControl.au3

[TurionAltec]

Built in Windows tools NET and SC of any use?

net use \\192.168.0.2 Password /user:admin

sc \\192.168.0.2 query themes

sc \\192.168.0.2 start themes

sc \\192.168.0.2 config themes start= demand

sc \\192.168.0.2 query themes

I'd only like to caution that if you use SC, somewhere there exists a program that is also sc.exe, and the installer will put that program's subdir in the path BEFORE system32, which will cause sc to throw errors, so specify %systemroot%\system32\sc.exe

Also, I can't get tasklist to work correctly on a remote machine, however pslist (from sysinternals) seems to work fine. If the service has a specific name, you can use that to see if it's running:

pslist \\192.168.0.2 -u admin -p Password explorer

Edited September 22, 2009 by TurionAltec