Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Windows: Start or Stop a Service on remote server using wmic

WMIC has been a built-in command since XP as a interface to WMI operations. Here is a basic task , stop or start the windows service on remote server.

Run WMIC on command prompt, or Run box.
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By default, the WMIC connect to local WMI service. If you want to connect to a remote Node.
put

/Node:yourremote Server
/User:account
enter you password.

When you run /? , you will be able to see all the built-in Objects that you can interact with.

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Service List, it will show you all services installed on the server
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If you want to list only those service a running, and list the name caption only (like the sql projection syntax. )

service where state=”running” get name, caption, status
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get a specified service status, like iisadmin

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If you want to control the service, like stop the service or restart the service. 
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to list all the operation on the service ,
Service where name=”iisadmin” call
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the same approach applies to the process management.

process where name=”notepad.exe” call terminate
close the notepad.exe process
to shutdown the server
terminate the winlogon.exe


Also you can use PSexec to run process on the remote server directly. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

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