Windows command to get service status? - windows-services

Question

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.

Answer 1

Have you tried sc.exe?
C:\> for /f "tokens=2*" %a in ('sc query audiosrv ^| findstr STATE') do echo %b
4 RUNNING
C:\> 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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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!!!

Answer 8

my intention was to create a script which switches services ON and OFF (in 1 script)
net start NameOfSercive 2>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

Answer 9

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.

Answer 10

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 &chr(10) & aService.Name & "=" & 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.

Answer 11

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.

Answer 12

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!!!