service::get-status

Gets the status of the specified service.

Usage


      ServiceControllerStatus service::get-status(service, machineName)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
service	string	The short name that identifies the service to the system.
machineName	string	The computer on which the service resides.

Return Value

One of the ServiceControllerStatus values that indicates whether the service is running, stopped, or paused, or whether a start, stop, pause, or continue command is pending.

Remarks

For the machineName parameter, you can use "." or a zero-length String to represent the local computer.

The value returned by service::get-status() can be compared to either a corresponding enum field name or the underlying integral value.

Examples

Displays a warning if the Alerter service is stopping on SV-ARD-EAI1.

<if test="${service::get-status('Alerter', 'SV-ARD-EAI1') == 'StopPending'}">
    <echo level="Warning">The Alerter service is stopping.</echo>
</if>

The "deploy-web-application" target is only executed if IIS is running on the local computer.

<target name="deploy" depends="deploy-sql-scripts, deploy-web-application" />

<target name="deploy-sql-scripts">
    ...
</target>

<target name="deploy-web-application" if="$(service::get-status('World Wide Web Publishing', '.') == 4)}">
    ...
</target>

Requirements

Assembly: NAnt.Contrib.Tasks (0.92.4543.0)