PowerShell loop issue - powershell

Question

I've got a piece of code to check the status of a particular service and if the status is not "running" to start it. The variable seems to have the proper data before the if/else statement but it always defers to else even when I have one of the test server's service set to off. It will report one service as running and one as stopped but will echo "It's Down" for both.
Thanks in advance for your help
$Servers = get-content c:\scripts\list.txt
$Servers|foreach {
$service = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $_ -Class Win32_Service -Filter "Name='Buildbot'"
$status = Get-Service -ComputerName $_ -Name "Buildbot" | select Status
echo $status
if ($status -eq "Running") {"Its Up!"} else {"It's down"}
#$service.StartService()
#"It should be up now"}
}

Answer 1

Pretty sure your issue is that you are doing a string comparison on an object with the property status as supposed a string of the status state. Update the line that populates $status like either of the following examples
$status = Get-Service -ComputerName $_ -Name "Buildbot" | select -ExpandProperty Status
$status = (Get-Service -ComputerName $_ -Name "Buildbot").Status
As an aid consider the output of the following two commands
PS C:\Users\mcameron> Get-Service -Name "Print Spooler" | select Status
Status
------
Running
PS C:\Users\mcameron> Get-Service -Name "Print Spooler" | select -expand Status
Running
The first result is an object with the property Status. Second is just a string.