Slightly OT but useful in a remote situation nevertheless, is the
ability to reboot a system that refuses to follow the normal
shutdown/reboot procedure. On numerous occasions, a remote system will
not even obey a "shutdown -r -t xx" command. If one runs Task Manager,
sorts the running processes' Image Name alphabetically and kills the
first svchost.exe running under the Network Service user, the system
will reboot in 60 seconds every time.
On the 18/06/2008 16:56, Tim Vander Kooi wrote the following:
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
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*Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:36 AM
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*Subject:* Re: View processes running on a remote PC in realtime
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