Service Status

[Shift838]

I am trying to query a service to get it's state (running, stopped, etc). I am dumping it to a CSV file.

There may be an easier way to do this.

I have it working but when it dumps to the CSV file for status I see:

@{Status=Running}

I just want to see 'Running'.

I thought that I could just trim like I would any string but not the case.

I created a test program of:

$svcIMA = Get-Service IMAService -ComputerName SERVER01 | Select-Object Status
$IMAtrim = $trimtest.TrimStart("@{Status=")
$IMAResult = $IMAtrim.TrimEnd("}")
Write-Host $imaresult

When I run it I get:

Method invocation failed because
[Selected.System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController] does not contain a method
named 'TrimStart'.
At C:\scripting\trimtest.ps1:6 char:1
+ $IMAtrim = $trimtest.TrimStart("@{Status=")
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (TrimStart:String) [], Runtime
Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

Any ideas anyone ?

 

[blister911]

Try this:

$svcIMA = Get-Service IMAService -ComputerName SERVER01 | Select-Object Status
$status_start = $svcIMA.IndexOf("=") + 1
$status_end = $svcIMA.length - 1
$IMAResult = $svcIMA.substring($status_start,($status_end-$status_start))

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[cdtech1980]

Hi can you just do this;

$svcIMA = Get-Service spooler | Select-Object Status
$svcIMA.Status

Running