Windows command to get service status?

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\".

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Answer 1

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.