ServiceController[] to access multiple machines

Question

Hi Guys,

I'm after some assistance / guidance, I am trying to create an application to control windows services i.e stop / start across multiple servers simultaneously. There is probably more then 200 services across 20 servers.

I came across the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController class and want to be able to pass multiple machines to the GetServices() method but can only pass one machine.

i.e
while
(dataset.read())
{
string ipaddress = dataset["ipaddress"].ToString()
ServiceController.GetServices(ipaddress);

foreach(ServiceController services in ipaddress);

{
services.Stop();
}

}

Is there any way around this or alternatively another class method to be able to do this?

The machines ip's and the services on the machine are from a SQL query dataset that I need to pass.

Not sure how else to access Windows services?

Thanks in advance

Kunal Pandya · Answer

Hi, I do want to retrieve the services as I want to be able to display them, but I would also need to use threads to restart all simultaneously. The thing I am not sure about is how display and perfomr an action on the services without using the "GetServices()" method. If I looped through all machines from the resultset, would I need a new thread to create a new ServiceController for every machine? Thanks.

vivek kulkarni · Answer

Hi, As per wat i understood you dont want to wait to access the service in the loop. you can use threads to start looping for each server and have 20 threads. You can use a timer control with a minimum time interval which will be again 20 threads for 20 servers. i guess we also have a thread control. However u will also have to consider other performance issues. Thank you,