Tom, as you can see from the other responses this is possible. I would change your angle though. Query every machine for every service and throw it into a DB so the next time you want to know about some service, you can just look at that DB. You are spinning up on your environment and will probably want to find some other service at some point.
The common vbscript way would be to use WMI to call out to the machines. I would probably swing more towards perl and do a system call to some executable. Knowing me I would call out to my svcutil tool with viewx enabled which will give all services with some basic info on each line including the account the service is running in. It is like svcutil \\machine viewx or say svcutil . viewx for the local machine. Then it is a simple matter of parsing the text. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_MAKE_WINDOW_THIS_BIGXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX G:\Docs\BookWrite\AD3E>svcutil . viewx SvcUtil V02.04.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) June 2005 ------------------------------------------------- Service list for . ------------------------------------------------- ADAM_ADAM1 ADAM1 running AUTO NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService ADInsightSvc ADInsightSvc stopped MANUAL LocalSystem Alerter Alerter stopped DISABLED NT AUTHORITY\LocalService ALG Application Layer Gateway Service running MANUAL NT AUTHORITY\LocalService AppMgmt Application Management stopped MANUAL LocalSystem aspnet_state ASP.NET State Service stopped MANUAL NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService Ati HotKey Poller Ati HotKey Poller running AUTO LocalSystem ATI Smart ATI Smart stopped AUTO LocalSystem AudioSrv Windows Audio running AUTO LocalSystem BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service running AUTO LocalSystem Browser Computer Browser running AUTO LocalSystem <SNIP> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:11 PM To: activedirectory Subject: [ActiveDir] query service is it possible to write a script to query every member server/dc in your domain to search if a specific service is running like dhcp or dns and spit that out to a text file or html? thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
