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Thu Feb 21 11:09:10 EST 2008

I've written the following script based on information I have found on
the web.  The purpose of the script is to start an HTTP listener on
the machine it's running on that will give status on a particular
service running on that system.  I've tried to create this as a
service on the windows server it's running on, and it will install
fine.  The problem I'm having is that the service will not stop when I
tell it to.  Any help that anyone could provide would be greatly
appreciated.  I'm new to python so please let me know if there is a
more efficient way to do what I'm trying to do.  The code follows:

import win32service
import win32serviceutil
import wmi
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler

class BlobCheck(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
	_svc_name_ = "BlobCheck"
	_svc_display_name_ = "Epic Blob Checker"
	_svc_description_ = "Checks the Epic Blob Service and Creates an HTTP
listener that can be polled for status"

	def __init__(self,args):
		win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self,args)
		self.isAlive = True

	def SvcDoRun(self):
		import servicemanager
		c = wmi.WMI()

		while self.isAlive:
			class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
				def _writeheaders(self):
					self.send_response(200)
					self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
					self.end_headers()

				def do_HEAD(self):
					self._writeheaders()

				def do_GET(self):
					self._writeheaders()
					running = c.Win32_Process (name="notepad.exe")
					if running:
						self.wfile.write("""<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Monitor</TITLE></HEAD>
						<BODY>Kool-Aid!!!</BODY></HTML>""")
					else:
						self.wfile.write("""<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Monitor</TITLE></HEAD>
						<BODY>Oh No!!!</BODY></HTML>""")

			serveraddr = ('', 12345)
			srvr = HTTPServer(serveraddr, RequestHandler)
			srvr.handle_request()

	def SvcStop(self):
		import servicemanager

		servicemanager.LogInfoMsg("aservice - Recieved stop signal")
		self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
		self.isAlive = False

if __name__ == '__main__':
	win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(BlobCheck)