I attended a session in Orlando on remote management, and the things you can do with WinRM and WinRS were really awesome. You may want to do a quick search on those. There's a lot on MSDN and TechNet regarding both. Tim
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: View processes running on a remote PC in realtime 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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 -----Original Message----- From: cs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: View processes running on a remote PC in realtime ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
