check if a process runs on a remote machine for a certain user

Question

I have to create an executable which checks if a certain process is running for a certain user (a service account) on a remote machine, the input parameters are 3 strings, machine name, user name and process name.

I have the idea to do this using either System.Diagnostics or WMI, just wanted to double check if anybody has another idea like powershell or even a window functionality which could make the task even easier.

since we want to make sure that process is always running on a dedicated server we will configure a scheduled task to execute a small console application which does this check. Not sure if coding it in C# is the best option or am I ignoring a builtin feature of windows server? Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure you can accomplish this with tasklist cmd: tasklist /S \\<server> /V > tasklist.txt. this will give you a file you can grep through.