Best way to handle multiple operating modes in C#

[tochisan]

Hello all,

I'm writing a c# console program that's going to be run as a service but I want it to have the ability to handle arguments and run in a certain way. The program is supposed to monitor several different types of servers and update a SQL database with vital information. Several of the servers are different and require special considerations within the program. The easiest way for me to accomplish this is with arguments against the program when it is run. So here's my problem. What's the best way to handle multiple arguments?

lets say my arguments are thus:

/exchange
/cluster
/dc
/sql
/fileserver
etc,

and i want to do different things depending on which arguments are encountered. So, lets say a server is a clustered exchange server then it would be /exchange and /cluster. now, i could use an if statement but it gets a little complicated once i start getting more than a couple arguments...

I thought of assigning each argument a value and then adding them together to get my run mode like so:

/exchange is value 1
/cluster is value 2
/dc is value 4
/sql is value 8
/fileserver is value 16

so an exchange cluster would be a value of 3 or a clustered sql fileserver would be 26, etc

the problem with that is programatically deciding which path the program should take once the value is determined. since not all the arguments are designed to handle servers.

so i ask for advice from the all the gurus here. What's the best way to handle multiple operating modes?