Question

I’d like to run a command that will give me the status of a specific windows service. Using sc query, I was able to get this information, see below.

C:\Windows\System32>sc query “IBM Cognos”

SERVICE_NAME: IBM Cognos

    TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
    STATE              : 1  STOPPED
    WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 1077  (0x435)
    SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
    CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
    WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

The only bit of information that I really need to access is the “STATE”. Can I filter the output so I am only seeing the STATE or “1 STOPPED”? I was hoping I could do something like:

sc query[STATE] “IBM Cognos”

My ultimate goal is to run a .bat file that will output the status of a service to a file. I can then read that file from another program and use that value to determine whether I should display a green icon indicating “started” or a red icon indicating “stopped” to the user in the UI.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Jeff

Answer 1

How about:

sc query "IBM Cognos" | find "STATE"

Should return something like:

    STATE              : 1  STOPPED