Write a Java application that allows users to restart Windows services

paulcarron

Please bear with me. I haven't done any Java programming in about 10 years so this is likely to be a steep learning curve.

I'd like to write a Java application that sits on a users desktop and can be used to restart one of 3 specific services on a remote windows 2012 server.

My initial thought is that the service would be selected from a dropdown and the restart initiated with the click of a button.

The users aren't administrators on the server so I'd like to empower them with permissions to restart these services(only these services).

Can anybody please advise where I might begin with this? If there's anywhere with information on doing something similar I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, am I biting off too much too soon? Right now I'm not even sure where to begin.

Anyway, learn by doing. That's always been my attitude so here's hoping!

paulcarron

Update.

I've got this code:

import java.io.*;

public class AtlasServiceStartStop {

    public static void main(String[] args){

        // you can pass query/start/stop to respective

       

        String[] command = {"cmd.exe", "/c", "sc", "\\\\10.3.0.101", "query", "\"Atlas 5.1.3580 AX2012R2 OTHER Service\""};

        try {

            Process process = new ProcessBuilder(command).start();

            InputStream inputStream = process.getInputStream();

            InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);

            BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader);

            String line;

        while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {

            System.out.println(line);

        }

        } catch(Exception ex) {

        System.out.println("Exception : "+ex);

        }

    }

}

It returns the status of the service.

I can change "query" to "stop" or "start" and re run the application to stop and start the service.

I'm now trying to create these as methods so I can have a query, stop and start method?

I'll post the details if I figure it out myself.