.NET Services/GUI/Remoting

[tEkHEd]

Hello..

I am trying to code up a tool that I can install as a service on a remote client. I want the tool to have a GUI locally that is accessible by the system tray, and also have the ability to be queried remotely and return configuration data from the remote machine.

I understand that I will have to use some form of remoting for this, but am not really sure if you can send a series of commands to a remote .NET service? or how this can be done??

For instance, the service is required to obtain information about the machine config, that the user may not have access to read.

I want to be able to query the service remotely to return information about that client (i.e - Users logged on, Running Processes, Hotfixes/Software installed) Can anyone point me in the right direction please??

 

[chiph]

Have you looked at WMI? It may be able to return a lot of the information that you want, and you probably won't have to install any code on the client (assuming NT/2k/xp clients)

Chip H.


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[tEkHEd]

Well I wanted to use the management classes in .NET to retrieve some of this information, but I need to run the code through a service so that the user themselves may retrieve localised information to pass to the support staff when they have a problem. We use a lot of laptops, which are very often offline, so I need both a local and remote interface..