Powershell Arrays - checking to see if services have stopped - arrays

Question

I know there is a quicker way of doing this but I just don't know how to approach it. I also need it to work in PowerShell V2 as I still have Windows 2003 servers I need to handle with this.
Basically this would stop services and then check to see if those services were stopped. I have a location to define them earlier in the script. I am using this to deploy code to servers so depending on the code from Development I may need to stop 1 to 4 services and looking to see if there is a way that I can define the services and not have to comment out code below if I only use 2 services as opposed to four.
#Turn off Services
stop-service $Service1 -force
# stop-service $Service2 -force
# stop-service $Service3 -force
# stop-service $Service4 -force
$VerifyServiceStopped1 = Get-Service $Service1 | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "Stopped"} | select -last 1
# $VerifyServiceStopped2 = Get-Service $Service2 | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "Stopped"} | select -last 1
# $VerifyServiceStopped3 = Get-Service $Service3 | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "Stopped"} | select -last 1
# $VerifyServiceStopped4 = Get-Service $Service4 | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "Stopped"} | select -last 1
if ($VerifyServiceStopped1) {Write-Host $Service1' Stop = Pass (0)'} else {Write-Host $Service1' Stop = Fail (1000)'; Exit '1000'}
# if ($VerifyServiceStopped2) {Write-Host $Service2' Stop = Pass (0)'} else {Write-Host $Service2' Stop = Fail (1001)'; Exit '1001'}
# if ($VerifyServiceStopped3) {Write-Host $Service3' Stop = Pass (0)'} else {Write-Host $Service3' Stop = Fail (1002)'; Exit '1002'}
# if ($VerifyServiceStopped4) {Write-Host $Service4' Stop = Pass (0)'} else {Write-Host $Service4' Stop = Fail (1003)'; Exit '1003'}
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Dwight

Answer 1

Something like this, perhaps?
$services = #(
'Service1',
'Service2',
'Service3',
'Service4')
Get-service |
Where { $Services -Contains $_.Name} |
Foreach {
#Stop Service
#Verify Service
#Restart Service
}

Answer 2

I'm not sure how you want to handle this, but since arrays is tagged:
$services = #("ServiceName1","ServiceName2")
#Turn off Services
foreach($service in $services) {
stop-service $Service1 -force
$VerifyServiceStopped1 = Get-Service $Service1 | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "Stopped"} | select -last 1
if ($VerifyServiceStopped1) {
Write-Host $Service1' Stop = Pass (0)'
} else {
Write-Host $Service1' Stop = Fail (1000)'
Exit '1000'
}
}
"so depending on the code from Development I may need to stop 1 to 4 services"
If you cannot define the logic involved in that decision, how do you plan to automate it?

Answer 3

Just wanted to provide the entire code used in case someone else is looking for something similar - thanks to everyone for throwing ideas into the mix it was very helpful.
#Define Services
$Service1 = 'servicename'
$Service2 =
$Service3 =
$Service4 =
$Service5 =
$Service6 =
$Service7 =
$Service8 =
$Service9 =
$services = #(
$Service1,
$service2,
$service3,
$service4,
$Service5,
$Service6,
$Service7,
$Service8,
$Service9)
#Stop Services
Get-service |
Where { $Services -Contains $_.Name} |
Foreach {
$_ | stop-service
}
Set-Service |
Where { $Services -Contains $_.Name} |
Foreach {
$_ | -startuptype "Disabled"
}
#Verify Services
Get-service |
Where { $Services -Contains $_.Name} |
Foreach {
if ((Get-Service $_.Name).Status -eq "stopped") {Write-Host 'Service Start Pass (0)'} else {Write-Host 'Start Fail (1000)';Exit '1000'}
}
#Start Services
Set-Service |
Where { $Services -Contains $_.Name} |
Foreach {
$_ | -startuptype "Automatic"
}
Get-service |
Where { $Services -Contains $_.Name} |
Foreach {
$_ | start-service
}
#Verify Services
Get-service |
Where { $Services -Contains $_.Name} |
Foreach {
if ((Get-Service $_.Name).Status -eq "running") {Write-Host 'Service Start Pass (0)'} else {Write-Host 'Start Fail (2000)';Exit '2000'}
}
This allows me to have someone list any services they need to stop / start to deploy custom code out there - also then I will be moving this to stop executables in order to replace them and other files for verification. Sadly we are handed a collection of exe's and dll's to just hot swap for some deployments of software so this is why this was needed. I wanted a way of defining what I need to move in and out per deployment but didn't want to comment out lines throughout the script that I didn't need (i.e. only had two services so needed to comment out the others throughout the script).

Answer 4

Just access the status directly:
> (Get-Service -Name "Windows Time").Status -eq "Stopped"
$true
or
if ((Get-Service -Name "Windows Time").Status -eq "Stopped")
{
Write-Host "Yep..."
}
or if you want to be really terse, you can use the alias gsv:
> (gsv "Windows Time").Status -eq "Stopped"
$true
You could also make a function:
Function IsStopped ($name)
{
((Get-Service $name).Status -eq "Stopped")
}
if (IsStopped "Windows Time")
{
Write-Host "foo"
}