listing existing windows services with python

[News123]

Thanks for your answers,




The security wouldn't be a concern, as I would run while being only
accessible by trusted hosts.

I don't use the script often, so if it would start a WMI service during
runtime and stop it afterwards it would be fine.

I just wonder whether installing another 3rd party package for just
listing all services s worth the effort.


In my current case I'll go probably for parsing the output of
"sc.exe query" or I'll traverse the registry.

currently I just want to get a list of the names of the running services.


bye


N



Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> * alex23:
>> News123 <news... at free.fr> wrote:
>>> What is the best way with python to get a list of all windows services.
>>>
>>> As a start I would be glad to receive only the service names.
>>>
>>> However it would be nicer if I could get all the properties of a service
>>> as well.
>>
>> I highly recommend Tim Golden's fantastic WMI module[1].
> 
> It's probably Very Good, but one Microsoft-thing one should be aware of:
> using WMI functionality generally starts up a background WMI service...
> 
> Similarly, starting the standard clipboard viewer (discontinued in
> Windows Vista) starts up a silly copy-clipboard-contents-over-network
> service.
> 
> On a low-range machine the WMI service can be a resource concern.
> 
> I don't know whether the WMI service is a security concern (it probably
> is, considering IIS and anything Microsoft+Network and that WMI is meant
> to administrate machines over network, it's an enterprise thing not a
> personal computer user thing), but the clipboard service is, as I
> recall, a concern.
> 
> 
>>     >>> import wmi
>>     >>> c = wmi.WMI()
>>     >>> services = c.Win32_Service()
>>     >>> s = services[0]
>>     >>> s
>>     <_wmi_object: \\LIB-D5NYF1S\root
>> \cimv2:Win32_Service.Name="Alerter">
>>     >>> s.properties
>>     {u'DisplayName': None, u'ServiceSpecificExitCode': None, u'State':
>> None, u'Syste
>>     mName': None, u'ErrorControl': None, u'Status': None,
>> u'ProcessId': None, u'Desc
>>     ription': None, u'Started': None, u'AcceptStop': None,
>> u'CheckPoint': None, u'Pa
>>     thName': None, u'WaitHint': None, u'Name': None, u'InstallDate':
>> None, u'Caption
>>     ': None, u'StartMode': None, u'DesktopInteract': None,
>> u'ServiceType': None, u'T
>>     agId': None, u'StartName': None, u'AcceptPause': None,
>> u'CreationClassName': Non
>>     e, u'SystemCreationClassName': None, u'ExitCode': None}
>>     >>> s.Name
>>     u'Alerter'
>>     >>> s.Started
>>     False
>>     >>> s.ServiceType
>>     u'Share Process'
>>
>> 1: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Alf