Question

I have three remote PC’s to which I remotely connect. I am trying to write a simple Windows application that would display in a single window whether a particular process is running on either of the machines, e.g.

Server1: Chrome not running

Server2: Chrome IS running

Server3: Chrome IS running

I used WMI and C#. So far I’ve got this much:

            ConnectionOptions connectoptions = new ConnectionOptions();

            connectoptions.Username = @"domain\username";
            connectoptions.Password = "password";

            //IP Address of the remote machine
            string ipAddress = "192.168.0.217";
            ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(@"\\" + ipAddress + @"\root\cimv2");
            scope.Options = connectoptions;
            //Define the WMI query to be executed on the remote machine
            SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("select * from Win32_Process");

            using (ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new
                        ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query))
            {

                ManagementObjectCollection collection = searcher.Get();
                foreach (ManagementObject process in collection)
                {
                    // dwarfs stole the code!! :'(                        
                }
            }

I think it is all set up correctly, but if I MessageBox.Show(process.ToString()) inside the foreach loop, I get a whole bunch of message boxes with the following text:

\\username\root\cimv2:W32_Process.Handle="XXX"

I am kind of stuck. Is there any way I can “translate” that XXX to a process name? Or else, how can actually get the names of the processes so I can use an if statement to check whether it is a “chrome” process?

Or…is my implementation an overkill? Is there an easier way to accomplish this?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

In your foreach, try this:

Console.WriteLine(process["Name"]);