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determine service status - 10/7/2008 5:56:49 PM

phenry194

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I wanted to know if there is a powershell script that I can run against a collection of machines that will tell me the status of a particular service. I know you can look at all the services of a particular machine, but I want to look at one service on a group of machines. I am pretty new to PowerShell, but I figure there is something out there. Thanks! : )

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RE: determine service status - 10/8/2008 7:30:12 AM

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Use the Get-WMIObject to get service objects. Since you only want a particular service, you would use something like this:

get-wmiobject win32_service -computername SERVER01 -filter "name='spooler'" | Select SystemName,State

To process a text list of computers,
get-content servers.txt | foreach { get-wmiobject win32_service -computername SERVER01 -filter "name='spooler'" | Select SystemName,State }

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RE: determine service status - 10/8/2008 1:40:00 PM

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thanks for the info! : )

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RE: determine service status - 10/8/2008 7:21:21 PM

phenry194

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Ok, so with your input this is what I came up with:

$computers = get-content "c:\temp\facrecPCs.txt"
foreach ($computer in $computers)
{ get-wmiobject win32_service -computername $computer -filter "name='datbase gateway'" | Select SystemName,Name,State | out-file f:\powershell\facrec.txt -append}

What I would like to know is how I can generate a report without it printing the headers above each entry like it is doing with the script above. I tried a number of things but no luck. Is there a way to do this? Thanks! : )

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