#!C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe use Win32::Service; #set up a hash of known service states my %statcodeHash = ( '1' => 'stopped.', '2' => 'start pending.', '3' => 'stop pending.', '4' => 'running.', '5' => 'continue pending.', '6' => 'pause pending.', '7' => 'paused.' ); my %serviceHash; #go get 'em... Win32::Service::GetServices("", \%serviceHash); foreach $key(keys %serviceHash){ my %statusHash; Win32::Service::GetStatus("", $serviceHash{$key}, \%statusHash); if ($statusHash{"CurrentState"} =~ /[1-7]/){ print $serviceHash{"$key"} . " is currently " . $statcodeHash{$statusHash{"CurrentState"}} . "\n"; if (( $serviceHash{"$key"} =~ /SensrSvc/ ) && ($statcodeHash{$statusHash{"CurrentState"}} =~/stopped/ )) { # Win32::Service::StartService("", $serviceHash{$key}); system `net start "SensrSvc" `; print "$serviceHash{$key} !!! \n" ; } } }