Powershell: Get-service check running or not running

powershell service sccm
Tom picture Tom · Jun 20, 2014 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

I have the following problem:

When I use:

Get-Service -Name CcmExec -ErrorAction silentlycontinue

I get the follow list:

Status   Name               DisplayName
------   ----               -----------
Running  CcmExec            SMS Agent Host

or

Status   Name               DisplayName
------   ----               -----------
Stopped  CcmExec            SMS Agent Host

When I use

$service = Get-Service -Name CcmExec -ErrorAction silentlycontinue -ComputerName $Computername
write-host "$service"

I only see ccmexec but not "running' or stoppend".

Answer

Tim Ferrill picture Tim Ferrill · Jun 20, 2014

If all you want to see from Write-Host is the status you could use this:

Write-Host $service.Status

Or you could do something like this:

Write-Host "$($service.Name) is $($service.Status)"

There are a couple of problems with the code presented in your comment. First, you're using multiple if statements, rather than if, elseif, and/or else. (You could aslso just use a switch statement.) Second, it's actually matching both Running and $null because you're using -match instead of eq. Try this instead:

if ($ccmservice.Status -eq "Running") {
    $ExcelCell.cells.item($ExcelRow, 11) = "Running"
    } elseif ($ccmservice.Status -eq "Stopped") {
    $ExcelCell.cells.item($ExcelRow, 11) = "Not running"
    } elseif ($ccmservice.Status -eq $null) {
    $ExcelCell.cells.item($ExcelRow, 11) = "Not installed"
    }

You can get more details on PowerShell's comparison operators here.

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