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.

Answer 2

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!!!

Answer 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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.