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amit dayama
amit dayama

Reputation: 3326

Get status of service on a remote server

I need to find the status of a service on a remote computer. Though I can use the following command:

Write-Host (Get-Service -ComputerName "remoteServerName" -Name "serviceName").Status

which would give me correct status of service. However I have PowerShell 1.0 installed on the server where i need to run this script. -ComputerName parameter doesn't work for PowerShell 1.0. Currently I'm not supposed to install higher version of PowerShell.

Any idea how to get the status of a service in PowerShell 1.0?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5098

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200193

First and foremost (and I can't stress this point enough): If the operating system supports it you should upgrade to at least PowerShell v2.0. No exception. If the system doesn't support PowerShell 2 or newer it's already out of support and should have been replaced/upgraded months ago.

With that said, you can use either WMI (as suggested by @vonPryz):

Get-WmiObject -Computer 'remoteServerName' -Class Win32_Service -Filter "DisplayName='ServiceName'"

or sc.exe (as suggested by @Kayasax):

& sc.exe \\remoteServerName query 'ServiceName'

Of these two WMI is the more PoSh approach, as it doesn't require parsing text output.

Upvotes: 1

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