Stopping/Starting a remote Windows service and waiting for it to open/close

Question

The top answer to this question tells me how to stop/start a remote service. Great. Now, all I need is to wait for the actual stop/start to complete. So, what I\'m looking f

Answer 1

I improved the script of Eric Falsken and revised by Gerorge Perkins.

Changes:

• now it is not only a restart script. The script can start, stop and restart a local or remote service;
• removed logging (if you want this, you can use it simply by launching SCRIPT_NAME.bat > logfile.txt);

• sparse optimizations.

  @ECHO off
  :: This script originally authored by Eric Falsken http://stackoverflow.com/
  :: Revised by George Perkins 10/20/2011
  :: Revised by Armando Contestabile 02/23/2015
  IF "%1"=="" GOTO Usage
  IF "%2"=="" GOTO Usage
  
  SET ACTION=%1
  SET SERVICENAME=%2
  
  IF "%3"=="" (
      SET SYSTEMNAME=%COMPUTERNAME%
  ) ELSE (
      SET SYSTEMNAME=%3
  )
  
  IF "%ACTION%" == "stop" (
      SET ACTION=STOP
  ) ELSE IF "%ACTION%" == "STOP" (
      SET ACTION=STOP
  ) ELSE IF "%ACTION%" == "start" (
      SET ACTION=START
  ) ELSE IF "%ACTION%" == "START" (
      SET ACTION=START
  ) ELSE IF "%ACTION%" == "restart" (
      SET ACTION=RESTART
  ) ELSE IF "%ACTION%" == "RESTART" (
      SET ACTION=RESTART
  ) ELSE GOTO Usage
  
  SET STATE=
  SET CURRENT_STATUS=
  SET /A DEFAULT_DELAY=5
  SET /A SLEEP_COUNT=0
  SET /A RESTARTED=0
  SET /A MAX_WAIT_PERIODS=5
  
  ECHO.
  ECHO Attempting to %ACTION% service %SERVICENAME% on computer %SYSTEMNAME%.
  
  PING -n 1 %SYSTEMNAME% | FIND "TTL=" >nul 2>&1
  IF ERRORLEVEL 1 IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 2 (
      ECHO Failure! Server \\%SYSTEMNAME% or service %SERVICENAME% is not accessible or is offline!
      EXIT /B 1
  )
  SC \\%SYSTEMNAME% query %SERVICENAME% | FIND "FAILED 1060" >nul 2>&1
  IF ERRORLEVEL 0 IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (
      ECHO Failure! Service %SERVICENAME% is not valid!
      EXIT /B 2
  )
  SC \\%SYSTEMNAME% query %SERVICENAME% | FIND "STATE" >nul 2>&1
  IF ERRORLEVEL 1 IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 2 (
      ECHO Failure! Server \\%SYSTEMNAME% or service %SERVICENAME% is not accessible or is offline!
      EXIT /B 3
  )
  
  :Dispatch
  FOR /f "tokens=*" %%i IN ('SC \\%SYSTEMNAME% query %SERVICENAME% ^| FIND "STATE"') DO SET STATE=%%i
  
  ECHO %STATE% | FINDSTR /C:"1" >nul
  IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 SET CURRENT_STATUS=STOPPED
  ECHO %STATE% | FINDSTR /C:"2" >nul
  IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 SET CURRENT_STATUS=START_PENDING
  ECHO %STATE% | FINDSTR /C:"3" >nul
  IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 SET CURRENT_STATUS=STOP_PENDING
  ECHO %STATE% | FINDSTR /C:"4" >nul
  IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 SET CURRENT_STATUS=RUNNING
  ECHO %STATE% | FINDSTR /C:"5" >nul
  IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 SET CURRENT_STATUS=CONTINUE_PENDING
  ECHO %STATE% | FINDSTR /C:"6" >nul
  IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 SET CURRENT_STATUS=PAUSE_PENDING
  ECHO %STATE% | FINDSTR /C:"7" >nul
  IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 SET CURRENT_STATUS=PAUSED
  
  ECHO Current status of service is %CURRENT_STATUS%
  
  IF NOT "%CURRENT_STATUS%"=="RUNNING" IF NOT "%CURRENT_STATUS%"=="STOPPED" IF NOT "%CURRENT_STATUS%"=="PAUSED" (
      IF "%SLEEP_COUNT%"=="%MAX_WAIT_PERIODS%" (
          ECHO Service state won't change. Script exececution is canceled.
          EXIT /B 4
      )
      ECHO Service State is changing, waiting %DEFAULT_DELAY% seconds...
      SLEEP %DEFAULT_DELAY%
      SET /A SLEEP_COUNT+=1
      GOTO Dispatch
  )
  
  IF "%ACTION%"=="START" (
      IF "%CURRENT_STATUS%"=="RUNNING" (
          ECHO Service %SERVICENAME% is running.
          GOTO EndExit
      ) ELSE (
          GOTO StartService
      )
  ) ELSE IF "%ACTION%"=="RESTART" (
      IF "%CURRENT_STATUS%"=="RUNNING" (
          IF %RESTARTED%==1 (
              ECHO Service %SERVICENAME% restarted.
              GOTO EndExit
          )
          SET /A SLEEP_COUNT=0
          GOTO StopService
      ) ELSE (
          SET /A RESTARTED=1
          GOTO StartService
      )
  ) ELSE IF "%ACTION%"=="STOP" (
      IF "%CURRENT_STATUS%"=="STOPPED"  (
          ECHO Service %SERVICENAME% is stopped.
          GOTO EndExit
      ) ELSE (
          GOTO StopService
      )
  )
  
  :StartService
  ECHO Starting %SERVICENAME% on \\%SYSTEMNAME%
  SC \\%SYSTEMNAME% start %SERVICENAME% >nul 2>&1
  SET SLEEP_COUNT=0
  GOTO Dispatch
  
  :StopService
  ECHO Stopping %SERVICENAME% on \\%SYSTEMNAME%
  SC \\%SYSTEMNAME% stop %SERVICENAME% >nul 2>&1
  SET SLEEP_COUNT=0
  GOTO Dispatch
  
  :Usage
  ECHO This script can start/stop/restart a local or remote service, waiting for the service to stop/start ^(if necessary^).
  ECHO.
  ECHO Usage:
  ECHO %0 ^ ^ [SYSTEM]
  ECHO.
  ECHO If no SYSTEM is provided, the script attempts to execute on the local system.
  EXIT /B 5
  
  :EndExit
  ECHO.
  EXIT /B 0