Windows Service monitoring (Powershell)

Windows services monitoring and controlling is very easy in powershell scripting, you can easily

·         check service status  

·         turn the service ON if it is not

·         Keep log of services status

To get service name open Services, Right click desired service and select properties, and actual service name is right there as mentioned in the figure

Here we are going to write a powershell script to check two SQL Server services “MSSQLServer” 

and “MSSQLAgent”, you can add as many services as you want separated by comma.

We are also adding logs to an already created empty txt file, in our case C:\services_status\Services.txt

POWERSHELL SCRIPT

$services = 'MSSQLSERVER','MSSQLAgent' #list of services you want to monitor

$a = get-date -DisplayHint DateTime

$b = get-date -UFormat %Y-%m-%d

Add-Content C:\NOAA\services_status\PMB-Service.txt "--------------------------------------------------- Dated $b -------------------------------------------"

foreach ($service in $services) #loop will run times as number of services in the list

{

    $serv_status = (Get-Service -Name $service).Status

    if($serv_status -eq 'running')

        {

            Add-Content C:\services_status\Service.txt "Service $service is already running $a"

            #write-host "service $service is already running"

        }

    else

        {

            Set-Service -Name $service -Status Running

            Start-Sleep -Seconds 3

            $serv_status1 = (Get-Service -Name $service).Status

            if($serv_status1 -ne 'running')

                {

                    Add-Content C:\services_status\Service.txt "Something is wrong service $service is not started  $a"

                    #Send-MailMessage -from ' ' -to ' ' -Subject ' ' -Body $data -SmtpServer 'smtp.server.domain'

                }

            else

                {

                    Add-Content C:\services_status\Service.txt  "Service $service is On Now $a"

                    #Write-Host "Service $service is On Now"

                }

        }

}

Snapshot of powershell screen is as below

OUTPUT Log File

Output log file will look like this ……..

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