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Created by Philogogus on 10/6/2023 in #help
❔ Returning a bool value when searching for the status of a service running on a remote server
Howdy, I am trying to return the status of a remote service. I can get it to work fine with something like Print Spooler but when I try to return the status of the service I actually WANT... it doesn't work. 
 public static bool IsServiceRunning(string serviceName, string remoteMachineName)
        {
            ServiceController sc = new ServiceController(serviceName, remoteMachineName);

            try
            {
                ServiceControllerStatus status = sc.Status;
                return (status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
            }
            catch (InvalidOperationException)
            {
                
                return false;
            }
        }
 public static bool IsServiceRunning(string serviceName, string remoteMachineName)
        {
            ServiceController sc = new ServiceController(serviceName, remoteMachineName);

            try
            {
                ServiceControllerStatus status = sc.Status;
                return (status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
            }
            catch (InvalidOperationException)
            {
                
                return false;
            }
        }
Got this off of StackOverflow, and it seems to work because when I check for Print Spooler it returns YES. 
try
            {
                bool serverup = IsServiceRunning(".BLARG Server", "TESTSERVER-T06");

                if (serverup)
                {
                    this.EventLog.WriteEntry("It's up!");
                }
                else
                {
                    this.EventLog.WriteEntry("It's down!");
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                this.EventLog.WriteEntry(ex.ToString());
            }
try
            {
                bool serverup = IsServiceRunning(".BLARG Server", "TESTSERVER-T06");

                if (serverup)
                {
                    this.EventLog.WriteEntry("It's up!");
                }
                else
                {
                    this.EventLog.WriteEntry("It's down!");
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                this.EventLog.WriteEntry(ex.ToString());
            }
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