On Aug 25, 7:24*am, Bob Smith <BobSm...@xxxxxx>
wrote:
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> I will put the question up front to help someone who may already know the
> answer. Is there a way to change the timeout for a service stop/start in WMI?
>
> I have written a script to stop and start windows services on a number of
> servers using WMI.
>
> objService.StopService()
> objService.StartService()
>
> If the proceedure returns anything other than a 0, The service failed to
> stop or start. Periodically one of the services will not stop or start in
> time resulting in an error, where the services is not stopped or started.
> This seems to occur in a dwe
>
> When you restart a service in Windows service manager there is a 60 second
> wait time for the service to not respond before this timeout is reached. This
> does not appear to be the case with WMI. Is there a way to change the timeout
> in WMI?
No, you'll have to use some sort of wait command between these 2 lines
if timeout is the problems.
-OG