Vista - remote service

I want to see if a service is RUNNING on a remote machine (it is a Windows
2000 server and can't run PS locally)

since the remote service stuff doesn't seem fully functional in this
release, I am trying to leverage PS and the 'sc.exe' command

I have this:

c:\windows\system32\sc \\unity01 query "alerter" | foreach {"$_"} |
select-string "running"
STATE : 4 RUNNING

What I want is 'if there is some output, run another command'. So if the
service is running, I do something else.

Thanks
Blake

Have you tried using WMI for this?

gwmi -computer unity1 win32_service -filter "name='alerter'" |
foreach-object { if ($_.State -eq 'Running') {"Put your command here"}}

Now I wasn't clear if you wanted to run a command remotely, this example
will just execute a command on whatever machine is running the powershell
session.


"Blake" wrote:

Although you can still use WMI to remotely manage the server. Here's another way: Managing Services with PowerShell and ADSI | SAPIEN Technologies