Useful to know about running remote commands with psexec. Will come in
handy for the odd occasion when I need to silently roll out patches on a
case by case basis, and I'm sure it will prove to be very useful for
other scenarios over time. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:43 AM, James Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Another interesting use of pstools is "psexec \\computername
cmd" which will open you a remote command prompt and keep it open until
you exit in the normal fashion. Much easier than telnetting. Psexec is
probably the most useful tool in the suite.
2008/6/18 cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Thanks James - I expect pstools will automate the telnet
step below but after posting found an alternative approach to find out
what processes are running in "near enough" realtime....
1. Start telnet on remote computer via computer
management
2. Connect to telnet server from client
3. Run "tasklist /v" every 10 seconds or so to gauge
what processes are taking up system resource
Will give pstools a shot though - the above workaround
is too overkill for my liking...
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM, James Rankin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
pslist (with or without the -s switch) will do
this on a local or remote machine
Download pstools from MS to get it
2008/6/18 cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello all,
I'm looking for a tool that will allow
me to view (in realtime) processes running on a remote XP SP2 desktop,
i.e. to gauge CPU utilisation, etc.
Although "tasklist /s computername"
tells me WHAT processes are currently running (along with memory usage),
I'd like a similar view, only in realtime.
I'm aware I could simply remote control
the PC in question and use Task Manager to view running processes but
the user has left their desktop locked and due to internal security
policy I'm not authorised to reset the user's password without
contacting the user first.
To put into context the above
requirement, I'm simply trying to ascertain if any applications are
running within the user's logon session before I log 'em out to install
some software.
Hope that all makes sense. Apologies if
I haven't explained clearly.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
- JS
Pslist will do this,
Pslist \\servername <file:///\\servername> -s is all you need.
Z
Edward E. Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
Phone: 401-639-3505
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Subject: Re: View processes running on a remote PC in realtime
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