VBScript to check on service status

[rr27]

I'm new to VBS so please bare with me. I have a win2k3 server that I would like to monitor 2 critical services on. I would like to write a vbscript that polls the service every hour and if the service is not running will send an email out. How do I go about doing this?

 

[tfg13]

Will any of the stuff at this page help?

http://www.activexperts.com/activmo...g/performance/#MonitorChangeServiceStatus.htm

 

[rr27]

Wow..this looks great thanks...

 

[rr27]

Ok...one more question. Again I'm new to VBscripting: How would I add email notification to this script when the spoolsv.exe service stops. I have an exchange server if this matters or not.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colServices = objWMIService. _
ExecNotificationQuery("Select * from __instancemodificationevent " _
& "within 30 where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_Service'")
i = 0
Do While i = 0
Set objService = colServices.NextEvent
If objService.TargetInstance.State <> _
objService.PreviousInstance.State Then
Wscript.Echo objService.TargetInstance.Name _
& " is " & objService.TargetInstance.State _
& ". The service previously was " & _
objService.PreviousInstance.State & "."
End If
Loop