VBScript to know the status of the windows service

biplabmukh
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Hello Team,

I need a VBscript which can monitor the status of the specific windows service, like IISADMIN & only when service is get in stopped state send out a notification email to speicific DL.

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Julian123

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Yes, you can definatley check the service status with vbscript. Here's a tutorial on how to do it:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/check-service-status-on-local-or-remote-servers

and one other for good measure:
http://themonitoringguy.com/scripts-code/monitoring-windows-services-vbscript/
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To send email, I frequently use blat.exe invoked from the script:
http://www.blat.net/

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