Looking for a running process

[plyon70]

I need to write an app that basically looks for a running process on the network and then if it doesn't see the process running for "x" amount of seconds to start an application locally. I know how to write the "timer" and to call the app but I do not know how to have it look for the process. What is the best or most efficient way to do this?

It is not a service but just an application that is running.

 

[shatch]

To find out if a process is running on the local machine i use

If Process.GetProcessesByName("MyProcess").Length = 1 Then
'Runnning
End if

BUt i think you can use


If Process.GetProcessesByName("MyProcess", "ServerName").Length = 1 Then
'Runnning
End if

 

[chiph]

On the local machine, you can use the plist utility available from the sysinternals website.

If you're looking for an app to be running on the current subnet, then the app will need to broadcast it's appearance, or be listening on a pre-defined port so that it can respond to an identification query.

Chip H.


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[ThatRickGuy]

Or if the service makes itself known to the Active Directory, you could try to find it there.

-Rick

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