stop / start windows service using findstr

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I need to stop and start a service when certain parameters are met in a .txt file.

When my app can't connect to a database in our test environment (regular occurence) it generates the following file type in the server folder (file date changes with each occurence)

SelfTest-20141126181000-RED.txt

Within this file is the phrase

RED: Server failed to start: Unable to open database: Unable to connect to database

Every time this is generated, along with this phrase I need to stop and start a specific service.

I have never used findstr command but I think it could be useful here. Textfile needs wildcarding obviously, and i would like a results file generating with the data and time service was stopped and started. Would the following work?

findstr "RED: Server failed to start: Unable to open database: Unable to connect to database” *RED.txt
if %errorlevel%==0 (
sc stop "my service"
sc start "my service"
echo %DATE% %TIME% database >> results.txt
)

Plan is to then have this running through scheduled tasks every 30mins or so

asked 1 min ago

Marc Lawrie

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stop / start windows service using findstr