Monitoring system service

[massimob]

Hi,
I'm new in this forum and new for the dos .

I have the same problem:

I want to monitoring one my windows server 2000 system services if the state change from ACTIVATE to STOPPED.
For this, I have thought first to lunch a command: (now I use for example the windows service spooler)

1- sc query spooler ---> that return this:

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SERVICE_NAME: spooler
        TYPE               : 110  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
        STATE              : 4  RUNNING 
                                (STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0   (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0   (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

That's the correct state of te service.
I put this state in a .txt file ---> sc query spooler > original_state.txt

I lunch this batch script evrey /n hour on the server for create a current_state.txt

Now I want to comparing the two file for analyse if the state of services change... for example if the current_state.txt contain this:

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SERVICE_NAME: spooler
        TYPE               : 110  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
        STATE              : 1  STOPPED 
                                (STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0   (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0   (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

How can comparing a file and if are different lunch another .bat ???

For comparing, i can lunch: " fc original_state.txt currentent_state.txt /n " and this is the output:

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***** original_state.txt
    3:          TYPE               : 110  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
    4:          STATE              : 4  RUNNING 
    5:                                  (STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
***** current_state.TXT
    3:          TYPE               : 110  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
    4:          STATE              : 1  STOPPED 
    5:                                  (STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
*****

Any Idea??? how create an If or other control to analyse if two file are different or equal?
There is another metod???

Thank you in advance and sorry for my poor english.
waiting for your help.

Massimo

[MarkL]

Greetings!

Are you aware that fc sets the variable %ERRORLEVEL% to 0 if the files compare equal, which can be tested?

[darioit]

SC query liveupdate | FIND "STATE" | FIND "RUNNING"
if not %errorlevel%==0 CSCRIPT sent_email.vbs

[Squashman]

You could just use a for loop to set the current state of the process to a variable.

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for /f "tokens=3 delims=: " %%G in ('sc query spooler ^| find "STATE"') do set state=%%G