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Copper Contributor

Jul 31, 2024

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Powershell to Monitor Services

Hello, I have specific services that I would like to monitor on specific servers and send out alert if service is stopped. Below is a script that works for monitoring one service on a specific s...

Windows PowerShell

Harm_Veenstra
Aug 01, 2024
#Loop through all servers and services for each server
foreach ($servername in $servernames)
foreach ($ServiceName in $ServiceNames) {
If (Get-Service -ComputerName "$servername" -Name "$ServiceName") {
$ServiceStatus = Get-Service -ComputerName "$servername" -Name "$ServiceName"
$ServiceState = $ServiceStatus.Status
ServiceCheck
}
}
}

This checks if service is there, then checks status

Adamzter81

Copper Contributor

Aug 01, 2024

Thanks Harm. The problem is not all services are running on all servers. For example ADDS service may not be running on an App server so if we go with above solution, it will generate false alerts maybe, I will still test it out.

Harm_Veenstra

MVP

Aug 01, 2024

#Loop through all servers and services for each server
foreach ($servername in $servernames)
foreach ($ServiceName in $ServiceNames) {
If (Get-Service -ComputerName "$servername" -Name "$ServiceName") {
$ServiceStatus = Get-Service -ComputerName "$servername" -Name "$ServiceName"
$ServiceState = $ServiceStatus.Status
ServiceCheck
}
}
}

This checks if service is there, then checks status

Adamzter81
Copper Contributor
Aug 28, 2024
Harm_Veenstra

This should work, I am just trying to put all the peices together and now get this working in one script