Check VM services

[antoniogemelli]

Hello, I would like to have a script to check specific services in a specific VM. Not sure if is possible but maybe there is a way 🙂

[LucD]

The easiest way would be to use Invoke-VMScript and then run a Get-Service inside the guest OS.

The requirement would be that you have VMware Tools installed on those specific VMs.

Is that the case?

[antoniogemelli]

Hi LucD, I bet you will answer first 🙂 yes, VMs have vmtools installed and updated.

[LucD]

Lol

You can do something like this (I just use the WinRM service as an example

$vm = 'MyVM'

$serviceName = 'WinRM'

$code = @"

Get-Service -Name $serviceName

"@

Invoke-VMScript -VM $vm -ScriptType Powershell -ScriptText $code |

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