How to get IIS AppPool Worker Process ID

Question

I have a PowerShell script that is run automatically when our monitoring service detects that a website is down. It is supposed to stop the AppPool (using Stop-WebAppP

Answer 1

In case that Process ID is really the id of process to kill, you can:

$id = dir IIS:\AppPools\MyAppPool\WorkerProcesses\ | Select-Object -expand processId
Stop-Process -id $id

or

dir IIS:\AppPools\MyAppPool\WorkerProcesses\ | % { Stop-Process -id $_.processId }