C#.net, Monitor process on remote machine and start if it's not running

Jono · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:01

Hello,

What's the besterest/easiest way to do that thing wot I wrote in that title?

I would like to monitor whether or not a process is running on a remote machine when my bit o' software starts up, and if not, start it.

I'm trying to get my walnut-sized brain around WMI but I appear to have lost all cognitive ability today.

My main h'application is written in C# (VS 2010). If that helps.

Thanks for any advice.

Jono · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:38

Thanks, but is that not just for Services?

I'm talking about Applications - sorry, I should've been clearer.

Also sorry if it will work.

Jono · 29 Feb 2012 at 17:03

No worries - appreciate the trying to help

Jono · 1 Mar 2012 at 08:55

Hi Mr^B.

I don't know if we can install a service on the remote machine. The remote machine is a module that connects to our machine and has a bunch of stuff on it, and our manufacturing people are stupid and can't handle changes in software installation procedures very well.

The .exe always runs under Administrator. It is the main application that runs and controls the module hardware.