Schedule NPM services to stop or start from the command line with Task Scheduler

Overview

This article describes how to schedule Network Performance Monitor (NPM) services to stop or start from the command line with Task Scheduler.

Environment

• NPM 11.5 and later
• Windows Server 2008 and later

Steps

Create two .bat files:

1. Open Notepad.
2. Copy and paste the following:
   net stop SolarWindsAlertingEngine
net stop SWCollectorDataProcessorSvc
net stop SWCollectorManagementAgentSvc
net stop SWCollectorPollingControllerSvc
net stop SWInfoServiceSvc
net stop SWInfoServiceSvcV3
net stop SWJobEngineSvc
net stop SWJobEngineSvc2
net stop SWJobSchedulerSvc
net stop "SolarWinds Orion NCM Caching Service"
net stop "SolarWinds Orion NCM TFTP Server"
net stop NetFlowService
net stop OrionModuleEngine
net stop "SolarWinds SFTP Server"
net stop "SolarWindsAlertingServiceV2"
net stop "SolarWindsTrapService"
net stop "SolarWindsSyslogService"
net stop "SWCollectorService"
net stop "SolarWindsAgent64"
3. Click File > Save As.
4. Assign a name. For example, SWStop.bat.
5. Set the Save as type field to All Files. The .bat on the file name will enable the machine to open it as a batch file.
6. Click Save.
7. Open a new Notepad file.
8. Copy and paste the following:
   net start SolarWindsAlertingEngine
net start SWCollectorDataProcessorSvc
net start SWCollectorManagementAgentSvc
net start SWCollectorPollingControllerSvc
net start SWInfoServiceSvc
net start SWInfoServiceSvcV3
net start SWJobEngineSvc
net start SWJobEngineSvc2
net start SWJobSchedulerSvc
net start "SolarWinds Orion NCM Caching Service"
net start "SolarWinds Orion NCM TFTP Server"
net start NetFlowService
net start OrionModuleEngine
net start "SolarWinds SFTP Server"
net start "SolarWindsAlertingServiceV2"
net start "SolarWindsTrapService"
net start "SolarWindsSyslogService"
net start "SWCollectorService"
net start "SolarWindsAgent64"
9. Click File > Save As.
10. Assign a name. For example, SWStart.bat.
11. Set the Save as type field to All Files.
12. Click Save.

Set up a scheduled task to run SWStop.bat and SWStart.bat at your preferred time. See the steps to create a task by using the Windows interface in Schedule a Task (© 2017 Microsoft, available at https://technet.microsoft.com/, obtained on June 15, 2017).

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