new to AutoIt and scripting - Services

[lopesrpm]

Hi all,

I'm new to AutoIt and to scripting in general. I'm a SysAdmin but the most i can do with scripting is a bunch of batch files and that's it.

So i decided to start learning a bit about this, since it can help me save a lot of time in simple stuff, that is repetitive and time consuming, and i can adapt scripts to my needs.

Today I've been reading the tutorials and playing around a bit with a small script that i want to be able to stop a service on a remote computer. Let's say I want to stop the Alerter service at "Computer1"

This is where I'm at:

$answer = InputBox("Managing Services", "Target Computer", "Computer1", "", _
    -1, -1, 0, 0)
; Stop Alerter Service
 unWait("sc "$answer" stop Alerter", "C:\windows\system32")

I was expecting that whatever I typed in the box would be used as the computer name...I'm clearly doing something wrong, and something very basic I'm sure...just can't figure out what...

Any hints?

Ideally I would want to have a script that would let me start and stop services on remote machines, by typing their name in a text field, but...slowly i'll get there because i want to learn my way and not just have it working without knowing how it's done.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Juvigy]

I guess the last function is RunWait ?

You should type something like :

RunWait(@COMSPEC & " /c net stop alerter")

[Cynagen]

Hi all,

I'm new to AutoIt and to scripting in general. I'm a SysAdmin but the most i can do with scripting is a bunch of batch files and that's it.

So i decided to start learning a bit about this, since it can help me save a lot of time in simple stuff, that is repetitive and time consuming, and i can adapt scripts to my needs.

Today I've been reading the tutorials and playing around a bit with a small script that i want to be able to stop a service on a remote computer. Let's say I want to stop the Alerter service at "Computer1"

This is where I'm at:

$answer = InputBox("Managing Services", "Target Computer", "Computer1", "", _
    -1, -1, 0, 0)
; Stop Alerter Service
 unWait("sc "$answer" stop Alerter", "C:\windows\system32")

I was expecting that whatever I typed in the box would be used as the computer name...I'm clearly doing something wrong, and something very basic I'm sure...just can't figure out what...

Any hints?

Ideally I would want to have a script that would let me start and stop services on remote machines, by typing their name in a text field, but...slowly i'll get there because i want to learn my way and not just have it working without knowing how it's done.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Your code has an error:

$answer = InputBox("Managing Services", "Target Computer", "Computer1", "", -1, -1, 0, 0)
; Stop Alerter Service
RunWait("sc " & $answer & " stop Alerter", "C:\windows\system32")

You need to seperate the $variable from the "string" like I've done compared to yours.

Edited April 13, 2009 by Cynagen

[lopesrpm]

Your code has an error:

$answer = InputBox("Managing Services", "Target Computer", "Computer1", "", -1, -1, 0, 0)
; Stop Alerter Service
RunWait("sc " & $answer & " stop Alerter", "C:\windows\system32")

You need to seperate the $variable from the "string" like I've done compared to yours.

the R was missing on my first post.

I ended up adding the \\ so i don't have to type it on the computer name everytime.

this is how it looks...and it works! Thanks.

RunWait("sc \\" & $answer & " stop Alerter", "C:\windows\system32")

I'll post updates as my little script starts growing (and probably bug people some more along the way... )