Help with Communicating with additional PC's

[Lost User]

:doh: Iam new to programming in .NET's C++ and I am a little puzzeled on how to perform the following Objective: I need to have a main PC communicate with to other PC's. The information I need from the additional PC's is what is currently running(i.e. windows programs, etc.) and send a message back. After that I need to have the main PC shutdown or shutdown/reboot the additional PC's and or the main PC I know I know how to perform the Shutdown or shutdown/reboot. How do I communicate with the other PC's to tell me what is running on them? Is there anything that I can research which will help me? Thank you for your help

[tmangan]

You might use the windows performance monitor api. If you have used the windows performance monitor, you know that you can look at a report of what processes are running. Look at WMI. Alternatively, rather than query for all that info and make a remote decision, why not signal a check on the computer to be shut down? You would write a service that would run on the shutdown-able PCs. There are multiple ways to signal the remote service, however since you probably are interested in signalling all such PCs, a mailslot (using a * for the coputer name) may be the easiest approach. Obviously, I'm not providing details here, but direction for further research on your part. tim tim Founder, TMurgent Technologies www.tmurgent.com tmangan@tmurgent.com