Detect Windows Services

Chef Infra (archive)
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Greetings Professionals,

Does chef has power to detect the services that are running on windows nodes ? for example i need to check on what are all the servers the W3svc services are running? is it possible through chef,- ohai supports this feature?

Please help

Thanks
Prash

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Chef is capable working with windows services per: https://docs.chef.io/resource_service.html

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If you just need to check if a process is running, knife and powershell will be your best bet

knife winrm name:web1 --winrm-user <foo>\\<bar> --winrm-shell powershell '[bool]$(Get-Process -Name w3wp -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)'

This returns true if w3wp is running, false if not

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Might I also suggest looking into Inspec to check the compliance of your servers with a pre-defined policy (like services)

https://www.inspec.io/docs/reference/resources/service/

Regards,
Dan-Joe

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If your node isn’t in the same network that your workstation, you can use the following ruby code within ruby_block or directly in the recipe:

status = powershell_out!('(Get-Service serviceName).Status')

or

status = ´powershell.exe (Get-Service serviceName).Status´

to catch the response of script.

I hope that it helps you !

Regards.

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Can you please elaborate im trying to check services running on one of my windows machine 10.0.x.x.x and password *****
correct me if im wrong is this the way to execute the command?

knife winrm name:web1 --winrm-user 10.0.x.x.x*****; --winrm-shell powershell '[bool]$(Get-Process -Name w3wp -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

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Run knife from your workstation where you have knife installed

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