I need to Start and Stop Window Services using Test complete J script?

Hi,

> I found a dos command

psservice is not a dos command but a utility by Sysinternals that can be downloaded from Microsoft site.

If you need to pass credentials to control remote machine, I would recommend WMI (like in the example from m_essaid) with additional SWbemLocator object:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3929873/pass-credentials-to-wmi-call-in-vbscript

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389290(v=vs.85).aspx

Hi CSL,

You can use this example, just replace this line

  wmiService = GetObject("WinMgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\\\" + 
                          computerName + "\\root\\cimv2");

with the JavaScript version:

  let Locator = getActiveXObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");

  // the params are: computer name, namespace, username, password
  wmiService = Locator.ConnectServer(".", "\\root\\cimv2", "", "");

CSL that's interesting... Are you connecting using a domain account? Does this account have Admin rights on the remote computer?

If you open Command Prompt and run the following commands, do they work ("method execution successful")? It's the command line version of that script example.

wmic /node:COMPUTER_NAME /user:DOMAIN\USER /password:PASSWORD service where name="SERVICE_NAME" call startservice

wmic /node:COMPUTER_NAME /user:DOMAIN\USER /password:PASSWORD service where name="SERVICE_NAME" call stopservice

Service name is what's displayed in the Task Manager > Services > Name column.

CSL, try the following code - does it work? Also, try running TestComplete as administrator.

function Test()
{
  let computerName = ".";
  let serviceName = "WSearch"; // Service name is what's displayed in the Task Manager > Services > Name column

  // Use "" if local computer, otherwise use a domain account, e.g. "DOMAIN\\user"
  let userName = "";
  let password = "";

  StartService(computerName, serviceName, userName, password);
  Delay(5000);
  StopService(computerName, serviceName, userName, password);
}

function StartService(computerName, serviceName, userName = "", password = "")
{
  let service = GetService(computerName, serviceName, userName, password);
  if (service == null) {
    Log.Warning(`The '${serviceName}' service was not found on the '${computerName}' computer.`);
  }
  else {
    let status = service.StartService();
    if (status == 0) {
      Log.Message(`Started the '${serviceName}' service on the '${computerName}' computer.`)
    }
    else {
      // For the error codes, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393660(v=vs.85).aspx
      Log.Message(`Could not start the '${serviceName}' service on the '${computerName}' computer. Error ${status}.`);
    }
  }
}
 
function StopService(computerName, serviceName, userName = "", password = "")
{
  let service = GetService(computerName, serviceName, userName, password);
  if (service == null) {
    Log.Warning(`The '${serviceName}' service was not found on the '${computerName}' computer.`);
  }
  else {
    let status = service.StopService();
    if (status == 0) {
      Log.Message(`Stopped the '${serviceName}' service on the '${computerName}' computer.`)
    }
    else {
      // For the error codes, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393673(v=vs.85).aspx
      Log.Message(`Could not stop the '${serviceName}' service on the '${computerName}' computer. Error ${status}.`);
    }
  }
}

function GetService(computerName, serviceName, userName = "", password = "")
{
  let Locator = getActiveXObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");

  // https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393720(v=vs.85).aspx
  let wmiService = Locator.ConnectServer(computerName, "root\\cimv2", userName, password);

  //objectsList = wmiService.ExecQuery(`SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE Name='${serviceName}'`);
  let service = null;
  try {
    service = wmiService.Get(`Win32_Service.Name='${serviceName}'`);
  }
  catch (e) {
    // Object not found, or missing permissions, or another error.
    // Error code is e.COMExceptionInfo.scode
    // See the error codes in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393868(v=vs.85).aspx
    Log.Error(e);
  }

  return service;
}

Thank you Helen, upgrading to Test Complete ver 12.40 fixed my issue.

I also need to pass on credentials.

SO how can i use net stop to stop the service remotely with different credentials. Help please!

In that case, I'd suggest looking into the SC (service controller) command for this process.  You should run it with elevated privileges.

As for passing in credentials, not sure how to go about that off the top of my head but I found the SC command prompt stuff (https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/5372-remotely-start-or-stop-service-from-cmd) with a quick Google search.  There should be some way of doing that as well.  The key is how to run the command prompt via TestComplete... and WshShell is the way to do it.

thank you trying it.

I found a dos command that can stop & start the service. However it doesn't do anythign when i run it from Testcomplete

belwo is what I did, but it didn't do anything.

comExecute = "psservice \\\\" + serverName + " -u " + userName + " -p " + pWord + " " + command + " " + String.fromCharCode(34) + txtService + String.fromCharCode(34)

Sys.OleObject("WScript.Shell").Exec("cmd /c " + comExecute)

Hi ALex,

Thank you. But I am using javascript, I found the sample jscript in TestComplete website but they don't work in javascript. That's why I switched to using the psservice approach. I don't mind which approach as long as it works in javascript. This issue is holding me up for weeks now :( I hope you can assist.

I need to start the service remotely with credentials using javascript.

I appreciate your help.

Thank you so much,

I tried adding - SWbemLocator.ConnectServer  but failed as well. Can you

Helen,

Thank you for your help, I replaced my code with your suggestion and i bypassed the error but !eObjectsList.atEnd() always return true though objectsList.Count returns 150. Thus my script still failed. It cannot find the service that I sent.

function fn_GetService(computerName, serviceName)
{
 var wmiService, objectsList, eObjectsList, item, sysID;

let Locator = Sys.OleObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");

wmiService = Locator.ConnectServer(computerName, "\\root\\cimv2", "domain\\testUser", "testPass");
objectsList = wmiService.InstancesOf("Win32_Service")

if (objectsList.Count > 0)
{
eObjectsList = new Enumerator(objectsList);
for (;!eObjectsList.atEnd();eObjectsList.moveNext())
{
item = eObjectsList.item();
if (item.Name == serviceName)
return item;
}
}
return null;
}

Hi CSL,

Try replacing

  if (objectsList.Count > 0) { 
    eObjectsList = new Enumerator(objectsList);
    for (; !eObjectsList.atEnd(); eObjectsList.moveNext()) {
      item = eObjectsList.item();
      if (item.Name == serviceName)
        return item;
    }
  }

with

  if (objectsList.Count > 0) {
    for (let i = 0; i < objectsList.Count; i++) {
      item = objectsList.ItemIndex(i);
      if (item.Name == serviceName)
        return item;
    }
  }

Does this work?

Thank you Helen for your quick reply but it did not work :( item.name did not return any value.

Yes.