Checking Services on a Server

paul walker

Hi,
Can someone help? I need to write an application that will check whether a set of services are running on a server. The application will check every 5 minutes.
I am aware of the ServiceController object that can check the status of a service, but what I want to do is check the all the services running under a specific 'Log On As', rather than hard-code the name of the service.
Does anyone know if there is an object that exposes the services as a collection so that I can write a foreach statement to check the services?
Thanks
Paul

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paul walker16y ago
Many thanks Lalit, that's a great help, the one property that the ServiceController does not seem to expose is the 'Log On As' user.
Any ides how I can get hold of this?
Thanks again
Paul
Lalit M16y ago
check also this links
http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial225_Listing-Services-with-Csharp.html

http://www.devasp.net/net/articles/display/722.html

Lalit M16y ago

Try this sample code

// Check the status of this service to see if 

// it can be stopped

bool bCanStop = controllers[i].CanStop;
item.SetSubItem(3, bCanStop ? "Yes" : "No");

// Check if the service recieves notification when 

// system shuts down.

bool bCanShutDown = controllers[i].CanShutdown;
item.SetSubItem(4, bCanShutDown ? "Yes" : "No");

// Check if the service can be paused and continued.

bool bPauseNContinue = controllers[i].CanPauseAndContinue;
item.SetSubItem(5, bPauseNContinue ? "Yes" : "No");

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