Service Status Monitoring using PowerShell
PowerShell is a blessing for Windows administrators. With the level of reach that PowerShell has in Windows, there is hardly anything in Windows administration that cannot be achieved using PowerShell.
Recently, a colleague requested for a script that could help them monitor a set of services on a set of computers. They wanted the script to run every so many minutes, check if some specific services are running on a specified set of servers, and notify them if a service wasn’t running.