Monitor Services on Windows 2003 with PHP

Originally Posted by xerc

So, this may not even be possible, but if so, I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction or give me the right terminology to use for searches of code example. Aside from monitoring ports with ping and what not, I'd like to be able to monitor specific installed services on a Windows 2003 machine. Is this possible with PHP? I'm not talking about FTP, IIS, or other Windows services, but rather custom and commercial installed software that run as services. Ideally I'd like PHP on the machine in question to look at the service status and report this to a remote MySQL database. Is this possible without having VBScript or something report to PHP which then reports out again?

Originally Posted by xerc

So if I understand correctly, I'll need some .bat or other command in WMI/VBScript or other which can retrieve the status and write the output? I'm not particularly good with Windows scripting (not my servers so not my choice), so any guidance on the genre of commands I need to use? Thanks much in advance.