Start a service on a local machine

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Does anyone know how I can start a service on a remote machine? While connecting to the remote machine I want to pass an account (loginname) for the remote computer and a password. I periodically want to check on several computers whether a service is still running and when not I want to start the service.

gvcharan · Answer

Does anyone know how I can start a service on a remote machine? While connecting to the remote machine I want to pass an account (loginname) for the remote computer and a password.

mgroesink · Answer

Thanks again. I found out that this was my mistake. It all seems to work now. Thank you very much Dinesh for all your help.

dineshkalawat · Answer

oReturn.InvokeMethod(startServiceStopnull); must be oReturn.InvokeMethod(startServiceStopServicenull); Regards Dinesh Kalawat

mgroesink · Answer

Dinesh Here I am again. I have the following code now: System.Management.ManagementScope oMs = new System.Management.ManagementScope(@\10.44.38.11oot\cimv2 oConn); //get services System.Management.ObjectQuery oQuery = new System.Management.ObjectQuery(select Name  State from Win32_Service); //Execute the query ManagementObjectSearcher oSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(oMsoQuery); //Get the results ManagementObjectCollection oReturnCollection = oSearcher.Get(); //loop through found drives and write out info foreach( ManagementObject oReturn in oReturnCollection ) { this.listBox1.Items.Add(Name :  + oReturn[Name].ToString()); this.listBox1.Items.Add(State:  + oReturn[State].ToString()); if(oReturn[State].ToString() == Running && oReturn[Name].ToString() == PacMRemote) { ManagementOperationObserver startService = new ManagementOperationObserver(); oReturn.InvokeMethod(startServiceStopnull); } } But when I execute this the service is found but stopping the service doesn't work. It returns an error that the given method is not implemented by any class. Can you tell me what's wrong with the code?

mgroesink · Answer

Thanks again. You're help was great. I give it I try later cause I have to leave now. I'll let you know later if I succeeded.

dineshkalawat · Answer

sorry forgot to tell hw to start the service if u found your service write thsi code to start it ManagementOperationObserver startService= new ManagementOperationObserver(); mo.InvokeMethod(startServiceStartnull); thanks DInesh Kalawat

mgroesink · Answer

I'm almost there. If the servicestatus is stopped then how to start it again?

dineshkalawat · Answer

obj[StartMode] will give the startup type and obj[Started] will give the current status of the service Regards Dinesh

mgroesink · Answer

Thans again Dinesh. But how to test if a service (like alerter) is running and if it is stopped then start it again.

dineshkalawat · Answer

you can get the name of the service like : foreach ( System.Management.ManagementObject obj in services) { this.listBox1.Items.Add(obj[Name].toString()); } Regards Dinesh Kalawat

dineshkalawat · Answer

you can get the name of the service like : foreach ( System.Management.ManagementObject obj in services) { this.listBox1.Items.Add(obj[Name].toString()); }

mgroesink · Answer

Hi and thanks for your help. The connection to the remote machine works fine now but now I want to start/stop a specific service on the remote machine. Or list the names of all the services in a listbox. Can you tell me how to do that? I changed your foreach to the following: foreach ( System.Management.ManagementObject obj in services) { this.listBox1.Items.Add(obj.ToString()); } This works but doesn't give the name of the services.

dineshkalawat · Answer

sorry i forgot to mention connectionoption here ManagementObjectCollection services= null; connect to remote machine like : ConnectionOptions co = new ConnectionOptions(); System.Management.ManagementScope scope= new System.Management.ManagementScope(\\ + sMachineName + \root\cimv2 co); // connect using different credential co.userName = ; co.passsword = ; System.Management.ObjectQuery getService = new System.Management.ObjectQuery(Select Name from Win32_Service);; ManagementObjectSearcher search= new ManagementObjectSearcher(scopegetService ); services = search.Get(); u can navigate throught the servies and play around with it foreach ( ManagementObject object queryCollection) { //do watever u wanna do with the object } thanks Regards Dinesh Kalawat

dineshkalawat · Answer

Hi  You can use WMI  System.Management namespace to query the service of the remote computer ManagementObjectCollection services= null; connect to remote machine like : System.Management.ManagementScope scope= new System.Management.ManagementScope(\\ + sMachineName + \root\cimv2 co); System.Management.ObjectQuery getService = new System.Management.ObjectQuery(Select Name from Win32_Service);; ManagementObjectSearcher search= new ManagementObjectSearcher(scopegetService ); services = search.Get(); u can navigate throught the servies and play around with it foreach ( ManagementObject object queryCollection) { //do watever u wanna do with the object } thanks does it solve ur problem Regards Dinesh Kalwat

dineshkalawat · Answer

Hi  You can use WMI  System.Management namespace to query the service of the remote computer ManagementObjectCollection services= null; connect to remote machine like : System.Management.ManagementScope scope= new System.Management.ManagementScope(\\ + sMachineName + \root\cimv2 co); System.Management.ObjectQuery getService = new System.Management.ObjectQuery(Select Name from Win32_Service);; ManagementObjectSearcher search= new ManagementObjectSearcher(scopegetService ); services = search.Get(); u can navigate throught the servies and play around with it foreach ( ManagementObject object queryCollection) { //do watever u wanna do with the object } thanks does it solve ur problem

mgroesink · Answer

Thanks for your response. I already visited these links but I still don't know how to make a connection under a different account. I need to use a local account on the remote machines that belongs to the administrator local group.

mibuyt · Answer

Hi Look at this to get you started. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemserviceprocessservicecontrollerclassstatustopic.asp http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/May/WinServiceAdmin.asp Service Controller is the keyword which you need to look into. Hope it helps. Cheers.