Hello community,

I have a script that basically does the following things.
- establish a PSSession with a remote host
- get the service status
- according to the status of the service then stop/start/kill process

My only problem is that the specific service sometimes gets stacked on the StopPending status thus my script get's stacked.  This does not happen often nevertheless it does.

Is there a way to start the stop-service scriptblock with a failed timeout or something? 
For example

stop-service wait for 60seconds if it doesn't stop then do something else

this is the part of the code that is important.


$PSRemoteSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName $ServerName -Credential user1

$serviceInfo = Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -ScriptBlock {Get-Service -Name SrvNameHere}

$serviceName = $serviceInfo.Name

switch ($serviceInfo.status) {

'Stopped' {
Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ArgumentList $serviceName -ScriptBlock {param ($serviceName) Start-Service -Name $serviceName -Verbose}
 }

'StopPending' {
Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ScriptBlock {Stop-Process -Force -Name mtsrv -Confirm} Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ArgumentList $serviceName -ScriptBlock {param ($serviceName) Start-Service -Name $serviceName -Verbose}
 }

'Running' {
#this is the step were i would ideally start the service stop with a timeout of 60seconds.
#if nothing happens then do something else for example kill the process and start it again.

Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ArgumentList $serviceName -ScriptBlock {param ($serviceName) Stop-Service -Name $serviceName -Force -Confirm}

 #basicaly if the service is not stop the script keeps running for ever.
}
}

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

You can use a Timer for this:

$ElapsedEventHandler = {
    param ([System.Object]$sender, [System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs]$e)
   
    ($sender -as [System.Timers.Timer]).Stop()
    Unregister-Event -SourceIdentifier Timer.Elapsed
   
    # Do whatever you want
}

$PSRemoteSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName $ServerName -Credential user1
$serviceInfo = Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -ScriptBlock { Get-Service -Name SrvNameHere }

$serviceName = $serviceInfo.Name

switch ($serviceInfo.Status) {
    'Stopped' {
        Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ArgumentList $serviceName -ScriptBlock { param ($serviceName) Start-Service -Name $serviceName -Verbose }
     }

    'StopPending' {
        Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ScriptBlock { Stop-Process -Force -Name mtsrv -Confirm } Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ArgumentList $serviceName -ScriptBlock { param ($serviceName) Start-Service -Name $serviceName -Verbose }
     }

    'Running' {
        $timer = New-Object System.Timers.Timer
        $timer.Interval = 60000
        Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $timer -EventName Elapsed -SourceIdentifier Timer.Elapsed -Action $ElapsedEventHandler
        $timer.Start()

        Invoke-Command -Session $PSRemoteSession -Verbose -ArgumentList $serviceName -ScriptBlock { param ($serviceName) Stop-Service -Name $serviceName -Force -Confirm }
    }
}

Hi,

i am trying to implement something similar (but on a local machine, instead of a remote service). Code below:

$SERVICENAME = "smartFOCUS.Marketer.Connectors.eChannel.Service.eChannelConnector_SFT002"
$PROCESSNAME = "smartFOCUS.Marketer.Connectors.eChannel.Service.exe"

$ElapsedEventHandler = { param ([System.Object]$sender, [System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs]$e)
   ($sender -as [System.Timers.Timer]).Stop() 
   Unregister-Event -SourceIdentifier Timer.Elapsed 

   # stop process
   Stop-Process -Name $PROCESSNAME -Force
}

$serviceInfo = Get-Service -Name $SERVICENAME
switch ($serviceInfo.Status)
{ 
   'Running' 
   { 
         $timer = New-Object System.Timers.Timer 
         $timer.Interval = 10000 
         Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $timer -EventName Elapsed -SourceIdentifier Timer.Elapsed -Action $ElapsedEventHandler 
         $timer.Start() 

         Stop-Service -Name $SERVICENAME -Force 
   }
}

Not sure if i've done something silly here, but it doens't appear that timer is firing after it's elapsed 10 seconds. it still returns "service stopping" messages ad-infinitum

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Thansk

You can do this by executing the Stop-Process as a background job:

Start-Job -ScriptBlock {Stop-Service -Name "SERVICE NAME" -Force }

#give it 5 seconds to stop
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5

$SERVICESTATE = (Get-Service | where{$_.Name -eq "SERVICE NAME"}).Status
if( $SERVICESTATE -eq "Stopping" -or $SERVICESTATE -eq "StopPending")
{
    # still stopping so force process stop
    Stop-Process -Name "PROCESS NAME" -Force
}