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best strategy to monitor/manage windows services from multiple clients?. (C#)

I have a windows service (.net) that is an implementation of a custom protocol. I need monitor this service from multiple desktop clients (packets arrived, rejected, error, and things like that).

I'm evaluating different alternatives (remoting, socket multicast, etc), but I like to know if this problem have and standard solution. I think this is a very common scenario, if you think in services like IIS, serviced components, etc., you can connect remotely from many clients at the same time and manage the service.

I appreciate suggestions and examples.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • A simple implementation is to use Custom Commands.

    You would then be able to use WMI to administer the service with your custom commands.