how to check service state using vbscript?

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Anh Nguyen picture Anh Nguyen · Jan 12, 2014 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

Is there anyway to check the status of service using vbscript ? I would like to have a function for each possible service state : LINK Any help would be great. I did write a function for checking if service is stopped :

Public Function IsServiceStop(ByVal serviceName)
    On Error Resume Next
    Dim objServices, service
    Set oWmiService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
    Set objServices = oWmiService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Service where Name='" & serviceName & "'")
    For Each service In objServices
        IsServiceStop = (service.Started = False)
        Exit Function
    Next
    IsServiceStop = True
    On Error Goto 0
End Function

Answer

Ansgar Wiechers picture Ansgar Wiechers · Jan 12, 2014

When in doubt, read the documentation. All you need to do is check the State property of the service object:

serviceName = "..."

Set wmi = GetObject("winmgmts://./root/cimv2")
state = wmi.Get("Win32_Service.Name='" & serviceName & "'").State
WScript.Echo state

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