WMI - Windows Management Instrumentation
I've been doing some WMI lately with the managmentobject classes in the .Net Framework. Goal is creating a small app so the network admin could easelly monitor, terminate and start-up processes remote.
You can do a lot with the System.Net and System.Diagnostics namespace, but many members (System.Diagnostics.Process) are not available for remote processes.
Below you find a code snippet to get detailed information on a process(remote or local). Be aware that you need sufficient security privileges to be able to view remote process properties.
Dim lStruct_WinProcInfo As New Struct_WinProcInfo
Dim mo As ManagementObject
Dim lms_scope As ManagementScope = New ManagementScope("//" & as_IpAddress & "/root/cimv2")
Dim lm_oq As System.Management.ObjectQuery = New System.Management.ObjectQuery( _
"SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessID = " & CType(ai_ProcessId, String))
Dim lmoEnumerator As ManagementObjectCollection.ManagementObjectEnumerator
lms_scope.Connect()
Dim lm_objsearchquery As ManagementObjectSearcher = New ManagementObjectSearcher(lms_scope, lm_oq)
Dim lcol_queryCollection As ManagementObjectCollection = lm_objsearchquery.Get()
For Each mo In lcol_queryCollection
Exit For
Next
'Puts the info in a structure for easy access
lStruct_WinProcInfo = uf_PutProcessInfoInStruct(mo)
Return lStruct_WinProcInfo
Process properties can be retrieved from "mo" as follow :
mo.GetPropertyValue("Description")
For a complete list of properies see : Win32_Process
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