David, you can also use the “Load” method instead as follows:

[Reflection.Assembly]::Load(‘System.ServiceProcess, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’)

Ray

From: David Baldwin [mailto:David.Baldwin at ausport.gov.au] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:39 AM To: 'Scot Kreienkamp'; Storer, Raymond Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing

Ray,

Thanks for the code. I’m a bit wary of using something with such a version specific path though – is that seriously a “standard” interface to a .Net DLL that can be expected to have some degree of persistence?

I’m offsite this week, will try to take a look next week.

Thanks, David.

From: Scot Kreienkamp [mailto:SKreien at la-z-boy.com] Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2011 5:54 AM To: Storer, Raymond; David Baldwin Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing

Thank you Raymond… If I knew how to implement it I would. Hopefully David or Henrik can find the time to experiment with it.

I'm seeing all kinds of problems with the PS client…. If this keeps up I'll have to remove it. It pegged one of my servers at 100% for over an hour, stuck on the WMI yesterday.

Scot Kreienkamp Senior Systems Engineer skreien at la-z-boy.com<mailto:skreien at la-z-boy.com>

From: Storer, Raymond [mailto:storerr at nibco.com] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:58 PM To: David Baldwin; Scot Kreienkamp Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing

Opps… I missed the “.” in the [Reflection.Assembly]. Also, you can pipe it to out-null to avoid any unwanted output. So:

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile(‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.ServiceProcess.dll’) | out-null

Ray

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Storer, Raymond Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:40 AM To: David Baldwin; Scot Kreienkamp Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing

Scot and David, if you’d prefer to implement a .net pure call for services you can try the following:

your path to the file may very

#get all the services installed on the local machine $serviceController = [System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController]::GetServices() foreach ($svc in $serviceController) { # should indicate: Stopped, Running, or Paused … others??? write-host $svc.Status # the service name write-host $svc.Name # the service display name write-host $svc.DisplayName }

Ray [snip]

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