Remotely Restarting a Service Reliably

[humbletech99]

I need to be able to reliably and remotely restart a service from cmd/batch.

So far I have been doing

sc \\server stop servicename
sc \\server start servicename

But because of a timing issue this invariably leaves the service as just stopped. So I introduced a time wait between the two commands, but this doesn't always work, if the server is slow to respond to the first one, it's not ready by the time of the second one and the service never restarts.

Anyone got any good reliable method for restarting a service and making sure it comes back up from cmd/batch?

[DaveC2003]

Take a look at the link below:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...sRemotely.html

Hope this helps.

[humbletech99]

netsvc is not available by default and really it doesn't look any better than sc.

It is still limited to start and stop, no restart. My problem with sc is that it doesn't wait for confirmation of the stop before sending the start, and having a generic sleep time between the two calls has proven to be wildly unreliable.

So that's netsvc out of the equation, sc out as well, and net start/stop only works locally.