Read/get Windows service recovery/failure information

[Mc_Topaz]

Hello! I find a lot of information how to set the recovery action for a Windows service. For instance this command:

sc failure "Service name" reset= 86400 actions= restart/60000/restart/60000/restart/60000

This command will set the reset error-counter after 86400 seconds and have three actions to restart the service after 60000ms. Is there some command I can use to get the recovery/failure information from a Windows service? Best regards, /Steffe

[Richard Andrew x64]

See: Service Functions[^] Particularly QueryServiceConfig & QueryServiceConfig2 .

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[Mc_Topaz]

Thanks! Is it possible to get the information directly in the Windows terminal?

[Richard Deeming]

Not really on-topic for a programming forum, but you should be able to use sc qfailure {service}[^] to list the failure actions.

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[Mc_Topaz]

Thank you! I'm trying to map this to C#. I thought I could get a generic answer in the Windows API forum first before I try with C#. /Steffe