Check Windows Services are still running OK

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I don't know if this is the correct newsgroup but I couldn't find one for Windows Services

Is it possible to check that a Windows Service is still running from another machine

The idea being a couple of machines will be running my Windows Services to handle certain parts of our application, these machines will be located in the server room. I would like to create an application that runs on one of the users PC's that checks that these services are still running and haven't had any errors. Is it possible

Thanks in advance
Chris Podmore.
 
Hi Chris,

I think we can use the WMI to do the stuff.
In the .net framework we can use the classes under the system.management
namespace which is a .net wrap of wmi.

Here is code going.
Imports System.Management
Module Module1
Sub Main()
'replace the computername according to your senario.
Dim mc As New
System.Management.ManagementClass("\\computername\root\cimv2",
"Win32_Service", New ObjectGetOptions)
For Each o As ManagementObject In mc.GetInstances()
Console.WriteLine(o.GetPropertyValue("Name"))
Console.WriteLine(o.GetPropertyValue("State"))
Next
End Sub
End Module

Here is the properties we can get in the Win32_Service.
Win32_Service
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/
win32_service.asp

You may also take a look at the link below.
Take Charge with Windows Management Instrumentation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnasdj00/ht
ml/asp00a1.asp

Monitoring and Dynamically Configuring Windows Services
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/ht
ml/config_winservices.asp




Best regards,

Peter Huang
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Windows Services.

Is it possible to check that a Windows Service is still running from
another machine?

The idea being a couple of machines will be running my Windows Services to
handle certain parts of our application, these machines will be located in
the server room. I would like to create an application that runs on one of
the users PC's that checks that these services are still running and
haven't had any errors. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.
Chris Podmore.
 
Peter

Thanks for the reply and links, they appear to be just what I am looking for. At least they will point me in the right direction

Chris.
 
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