OpenLMI Service usage

Some common use cases are described in the following parts.

List services

List all services available on managed machine, print whether the service has been started (TRUE), or stopped (FALSE) and print status string of the service:

for service in c.root.cimv2.LMI_Service.instances():
    print service.Name + ": "+ ("1" if service.Started else "0") + " (" + service.Status + ")"

List only enabled by default services (automatically started on boot). Note that value of EnabledDefault property is ‘2’ for enabled services (and it’s ‘3’ for disabled services):

for service in service_cls.instances():
    if service.EnabledDefault == service_cls.EnabledDefaultValues.Enabled:
        print service.Name

See available information about the ‘cups’ service:

cups = c.root.cimv2.LMI_Service.first_instance({"Name" : "cups.service"})
cups.doc()

Start/stop service

Start and stop ‘cups’ service, see status:

cups = c.root.cimv2.LMI_Service.first_instance({"Name" : "cups.service"})
cups.StartService()
print cups.Status
cups.StopService()
print cups.Status

Enable/disable service

Disable and enable ‘cups’ service, print EnabledDefault property:

cups = c.root.cimv2.LMI_Service.first_instance({"Name" : "cups.service"})
cups.TurnServiceOff()
print cups.EnabledDefault
cups.TurnServiceOn()
print cups.EnabledDefault