$computers = get-content C:\Users\someguy\Documents\playmachines.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
Get-Service -name SCardSvr -ComputerName $computer | stop-service -PassThru
Get-Service -name SCardSvr -ComputerName $computer | start-service -PassThru
}
The above code does what’s supposed to but I’d like the output to list the machine name and the service state for each command.
Thank you in advance.
This’ll do what you want. It creates a custom object containing the details you want, and then writes the object to the pipeline:
foreach($computer in $computers) {
# Not sure when Restart-Service was added. May be you don't have it.
$service = Get-Service -Name SCardSvr -ComputerName $computer | Restart-Service -PassThru
Write-Output (New-Object PSObject -Property @{ 'Computer' = $computer; 'Status' = $service.Status })
}
I’d then wrap it in a function so you can capture the output:
function Get-ServiceStatus([Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string[]]$Computers, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$ServiceName) {
foreach($computer in $computers) {
# Not sure when Restart-Service was added. May be you don't have it.
$service = Get-Service -Name $ServiceName -ComputerName $computer | Restart-Service -PassThru
Write-Output (New-Object PSObject -Property @{ 'Computer' = $computer; 'Status' = $service.Status })
}
}
$result = Get-ServiceStatus -Computers 'Computer1','Computer2','Computer3' -ServiceName 'SCardSvr'
But by doing it like that, you are getting the services from the Remote computer and piping them to Restart-Service (or Start/Stop-Service) on Your computer, and restarting the service on Your LOCAL computer, not on the target computer.
Restart-Service, Start-Service and Stop-Service only Works on the local maschine.
It doesn’t have a -ComputerName parameter (check the help file)
I think you need to use WMI/CIM for this, or use:
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {Restart-Service -Name BITS } -ComputerName SomeComputer
to run the command on the Remote computer.
I don’t think so… What Martin has written will work on a remote machine. Remember that the object being sent through the pipeline represents a specific service on a remote computer because that’s what you requested with Get-Service. Therefore when you pipe that object to Restart-Service it knows what to do.
I can show another way this can be done, and in my opinion a little simpler, understandable and of course much less code.
Get-Service -Name SCardSvr -ComputerName $(get-content C:\Users\someguy\Documents\playmachines.txt) | Restart-Service -PassThru | Select-Object Status,Name,DisplayName,MachineName
Thanks to all that took the time to respond, im looking forward to testing the suggestions in the morning.
Cheers