PS code for window service check for automatic start and those services with that that are not started and notify via E-mail

Question

I am not a PS guru, hence the request. I have a scenario to check all windows service on a window host that are set for automatic startup, however are not started for whatever reason.

I have a programming background, however just not PS syntax friendly. I have gathered these two pieces and need to put them in a PS script that is PS v4 or higher.

Get-wmiobject win32_service -Filter “startmode = ‘auto’ AND state != ‘running’ AND Exitcode !=0 ” -ComputerName sql1 | select name, startname, exitcode

C:\> Get-PSServiceStatus -ComputerName test-01, -ServiceName ‘RasMan' -Path ‘C:\PSServiceStatus\' -FromAddress ‘alerts@emailsrv.com' ‑ToAddress ‘ITadmin@emailsrv.com' -SmtpServer ‘smtp.domain.com'

Answer 1

Okay . . . bare bones it is!

$NotRunning = Get-WmiObject win32_service -Filter "startmode = 'auto' AND state != 'running' AND Exitcode !=0 " -ComputerName sql1 | 
                Select-Object name, startname, exitcode
If ($NotRunning) {
    $s = $NotRunning | Out-String
    $body = @"
Dear ITadmin,

Your machine is in trouble! The following services aren't running:
$s
"@
    Send-MailMessage -To 'ITadmin@emailsrv.com' -From alerts 'alerts@emailsrv.com' -Body $body -SmtpServer 'smtp.domain.com'
}

Answer 2

That Get-PSServiceStatus might be a bit schizophrenic. It uses ForEach with the -Parallel parameter (which is only present in version 7) and Get-Service with the -ComputerName parameter which isn't present in version 7!

It also accepts only a single service name in each use of the function. And, it reads and writes a file for each computer and each service. If you're working with a lot of computers and every service on each of them that has a start mode of 'auto' that's a lot of reading of individual files together with the writing/removal of those files when service status changes.

Answer 3

Hello Dwight,

I would phrase it in this way:

Get-Service | Select-Object -Property Name,Status,StartType | Where-Object {$.Status -eq "Stopped" -and $.StartType -eq "Automatic"}

Hope this helps,

Get-Service | Select-Object -Property Name,Status,StartType | Where-Object {$.Status -eq "Stopped" -and $.StartType -eq "Automatic"}

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