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Check status of services that run in a remote computer using C#
Is it possible to check if a given windows service is running on a remote machine using C#?
This is assuming that I have the correct login credentials for that machine.
Try this:
sc \\<servername> query <servicename>
WMI, if you're using C# or VB.Net
Otherwise, "SC" is probably the best tool to use from a command line or .bat file.
psservice from pstools does just this.
PsService is a service viewer and controller for Windows. Like the SC
utility that's included in the Windows NT and Windows 2000 Resource
Kits, PsService displays the status, configuration, and dependencies
of a service, and allows you to start, stop, pause, resume and restart
them. Unlike the SC utility, PsService enables you to logon to a
remote system using a different account, for cases when the account
from which you run it doesn't have required permissions on the remote
system. PsService includes a unique service-search capability, which
identifies active instances of a service on your network. You would
use the search feature if you wanted to locate systems running DHCP
servers, for instance.
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I'm working on a monitoring app that is running on a vm and I want my colleagues to be able to use it without connecting on the vm. It works fine but I have one problem.
One of my goals is to start/stop services using a batch file or a cmd file (using Class Runtime in my back). The problem is that I need the administrator privileges to do that. All the methods I found (as Runas or some batch files) only works if the user is on the vm and enter the password or click on the "do you want to run this application as administrator" pop up. I would like to not use the task scheduler to always start cmd as an admin. I already know you can use softwares as "Sanur" but I prefer not to.
The only way to make it works is to start the app as an admin and it works fine (I'm using the "net start/stop" command). But I would like to let everyone start this app (in case I'm not here).
It's not a problem to write the login/password in the file.
Is there a way to do so?
The vm runs on Windows 7.
Thank you in advance.
You don't need to be Administrator to start and stop a service, you just need the privilege. With Windows 7 Professional you can do this through the built-in group policy editor.
With Windows 7 Home, there is not policy editor.
I use a tool called SetACL to do this, e.g:
setacl -on "service-name" -ot srv -actn ace -ace "n:betrand;p:start_stop"
Where "service-name" is the name of the service, and betrand is the user which you want to allow to start and stop the service.
A complete list of options is available on the website:
https://helgeklein.com/setacl/documentation/command-line-version-setacl-exe/
Another option is the SubInACL tool directly from Microsoft.
currently I am writing a deployscript for our build system.
I have an ec2 machine that i want to push my installer to, install the program and then run the program (exe). The program is in fact a server that should run forever. I already tried doing this with Powershell Remoting, this is not satisfying because a permanent connection is needed (if the powershell remote session disconnects, the process terminates).
Now I am looking into Invoke-WMIObject, is this really the best way to go, or am I missing something obvious?
Requirement is that the whole build process can be run from a powershell script (which is executed by our build server).
The server is running windows 2008 Server R2
kind regards
You could run your server program as a Windows Service - just wrap it with one of available free service wrapper utilities like nssm. You can use PSRemoting to recreate and start the service on the remote server each build by running Stop-Service, & nssm remove, & nssm install and Start-Service.
Alternatively (though probably not so easily managed in your build), you could remotely create and run a task in Task Scheduler with Scheduled Tasks Cmdlets.
You can use PsExec from SysInternals, but that's a standalone utility. However, you can still embed the logic in your PS script. If you are still in need of WMI, then you might wanna check this. It includes snippets of VB scripts and a detailed explanation of what to do.
Is there a way to install services remotely, without necessarily resorting to .msi packages or full-blown installers? I'm currently using a method similar to the one discussed here:
How to install a windows service programmatically in C#?
to install a service locally, and it works fine. However, I also need to be able to do the same thing remotely. I appreciate any insight.
If you can copy the service binary (the exe file) to the destination computer you can install the service exactly in the same way as you do this locally. The only distinguish is that during the usage of OpenSCManager function (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684323.aspx) you should use destination computer as the first parameter (lpMachineName) and in CreateService (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682450.aspx) as a lpBinaryPathName you should place the path to your service exe how it looks like on the remote computer.
You can use sc.exe utility to do the installation (type" sc create /?" in the command prompt to receive help). The remote installation of the service which you can do with sc.exe you can implement with native Windows API like I short explain above.
I have a windows server 2003 up in the internet.
But sometime I need to restart it.
After restart, I want one of the applications to run.
I want to do this all programatically.
I can now remotely restart the server.
But the question is how can I ask that piece of software to be executed (more precisely, I want to execute a .BAT file to ask a tomcat to run)?
Because I don't want to manually log in to the machine and start that application. That is time consuming. Is there any possible way, once the machine is started, my application will be run as well?
If you're developing an application that should always be running on the server, you probably need to implement it as a Windows service. For C#, see the classes in the System.ServiceProcess namespace -- you will need to inherit from ServiceBase.
Alternatively, you can set the program to be run as a scheduled task on boot. See the Task Scheduler API to do this.
You can install Cygwin and then do it the same way we'd do it on a Linux box: via ssh, using keys.
OpenSSH is not part of the default Cygwin install, so be sure to select it. It's in the Net category.
Then, after you've installed Cygwin and sshd, read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README to learn how to set up sshd as a service, so it will answer requests automatically, without you having to start the ssh daemon manually.
Finally, set up keys, as described in the link above.
Part of the ssh protocol is a way to ask a remote machine to launch a program. Setting it up with keys lets you do it without needing a password.
You could try xCmd, which is a freeware app to run a command on a remote machine.
When I was a Linux admin I could do anything from the SSH command line. Now, as a Windows admin, I have to deal with the Windows Remote Desktop graphical interface, which I found to be inefective (slow) and hard to automate tasks in it.
a) Can I connect to a Windows Server through SSH or any encrypted connection with command line interface?
b) If yes can I do ANY administrative task?
Examples:
create a new virtual folder in IIS
setup firewall ports
restart services
change user policies
start desktop applications
I know about the existence of Windows PowerShell 2.0 Remoting, but I don't know if it fullfills all conditions above
My conclusion so far: from Windows PowerShell can do MOST but not ALL administrative tasks. And I still don't know if Windows PowerShell 2.0 Remoting uses an encrypted connection.
PowerShell is what you're looking for. It is primarily targetted at system administration (although it's fanastic as a programmer's shell, too).
PowerShell v2 remoting is based on Windows Remote Management. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384426(VS.85).aspx. It includes facilities for ecryption and authentication, as you'd expect.
PowerShell includes cmdlets that let you do a lot of everyday tasks. Microsoft server applications (IIS, Exchange, etc.) either have or are building PowerShell cmdlets to administer them. PowerShell's WMI support is excellent, giving you a lot of machine administration power. PowerShell can talk to .NET directly, which lets you go further than built-in facilities when needed. And writing C# for PowerShell to call works out cleanly, too.
You asked for a command line interface, but don't think that you're restricted to the ancient and crufty Windows Console subsystem. PowerShell v2 includes a new GUI interactive shell / script editor, with colorization and debugging. It's sweet.
You can also try http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/
I don't have personal experience with it but it looks promising.
Did you consider Google? (looks like you edited your question. You now no longer ask if the example tasks can be achieved using PowerShell)
Powershell snap-in for IIS 7
Restart-Service
Group policies
etc...
Sorry for not answering your question. I was in a similar situation.
I gave up to do all tasks on the windows shell
Instead I do use the shell for some tasks, but I am also using rdesktop (through ssh) and I put icons for the most important gui admin tools on the windows quicklaunch.
I gave up making windows feel like unix because it never will.
alternatively try to download and install eurysco to use the following features that is based on another logic...
1.create a new virtual folder in IIS (from eurysco commandline to launch vbs or powershell script)
2.setup firewall ports (from eurysco commandline to launch netsh.exe advfirewall)
3.restart services (from eurysco service control)
4.change user policies (from eurysco system registry or commandline to launch powershell script)
5.start desktop applications (from eurysco commandline to launch powershell script)
http://www.eurysco.com/features