How to set the on-error-behavior of a windows service in cmd?

Question

In Windows, I am using SC.EXE to stop, uninstall, reinstall and restart a service after an update-deployment. Now I need to change the on-error-behavior of a windows service only using cmd (I want the service to restart on error). This can easily be set using the services GUI interface but is there a way to access these settings without using the gui? Powershell is also OK but I'd prefer to stick to simple CMD. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can use the -ErrorAction action tag for generalized error solutions.

Stop-Process -Name "" -Value Stop -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Or if it's a warning you can use -WarningAction with the same usage method.

You can also use the -ErrorVariable to store errors produced throughout the running process in a string variable.

Stop-Process 123 -ErrorVariable a
$a

That will run a process and put all error output into var "a" as a string.

If Your Wanting Something To Act On Behalf Of The Errors Here's a Simple Script That Should Do What You Want It To Do:(The "#" indicates notes I put in there for you)

# Gathers Service To Be Altered
$serviceSum = @("", "")

# Goes Through Array And Set's All Specified Services To Restart Upon Failure
function Set-ServiceErrorAction([ref]$serviceSum)
{
    foreach($serviceInst in $serviceSum)
        {
            $services = Get-WMIObject win32_service | Where-Object {$_.description -imatch "$serviceInst" -and $_.startmode -eq "Auto"}; 
            foreach($service in $services)
                {
                    sc.exe failure $service.name reset= 86400 actions= restart/5000
                }
        }
}
Set-ServiceErrorAction

Enjoy,