Windows Service Web Control

A self hosted Windows service which provides an API to query the state, start, stop, restart Windows services. The idea came from wanting a way to allow HUBOT (https://hubot.github.com/) to perform actions on Windows Services.

End Points

Get

• http://{servicehost}:8081/service/{host}/{service_name}/status
• http://{servicehost}:8081/health/ping

Post

• http://{servicehost}:8081/service/{host}/{service_name}/start
• http://{servicehost}:8081/service/{host}/{service_name}/stop
• http://{servicehost}:8081/service/{host}/{service_name}/restart

Installing Service

To run the service in command line and not install it simply double click on the executable. To install the service simple run the following command from cmd: (run as administrator)

WindowsServiceWebControl install