Hi,
I’m looking for Pre and post health check of windows services during patching.
Requirement as follows.
Running services should be captured before patching the server.
After patching and reboot, it should check for the running services and compare with pre-patching running services.
If any service is not started after reboot, it should try to start it.
If it is not getting started , then it should send the report of issue services on servers.
How can we achieve this using bigfix.
Thanks.
I am sorry I am going to make this quick. I wanted to offer you a place to start before the long weekend.
I would pull the services that are running and dump them to a “pre” text file. After reboot, pull those and make sure they are running.
q: (service name of it) of services whose (state of it = "Running")
A: Appinfo
A: BESClient
To prove they are running you can add “state of it”. But you dont really want to dump that to a text file you are going to parse…
q: (service name of it, state of it) of services whose (state of it = "Running")
A: Appinfo, Running
A: BESClient, Running
To put in a file, this would be the action…
appendfile {concatenation "%0d%0a" of (service name of it) of services whose (state of it = "Running")}
folder delete "c:\ServicesStates"
folder create "c:\ServicesStates"
copy __appendfile "c:\ServicesStates\RunningServices.txt"
Results look like this…
You can read the file like this…
lines of file "C:\ServicesStates\RunningServices.txt"
I believe you can cycle that through starting the service. with actionscript but you could also do it with a batch file.
I would have to do a little research to make that happen. Hope this helps and I will check back on Tuesday