In C# how do i query the list of running services on a windows server?

Question

I want to query for a list of services running as a specific user on a remote machine and then check the health of each. I\'m building a custom console.

Answer 1

To use the ServiceController method I'd check out the solution with impersonation implemented in this previous question: .Net 2.0 ServiceController.GetServices()

FWIW, here's C#/WMI way with explicit host, username, password:

using System.Management;

static void EnumServices(string host, string username, string password)
{
    string ns = @"root\cimv2";
    string query = "select * from Win32_Service";

    ConnectionOptions options = new ConnectionOptions();
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(username))
    {
        options.Username = username;
        options.Password = password;
    }

    ManagementScope scope = 
        new ManagementScope(string.Format(@"\\{0}\{1}", host, ns), options);
    scope.Connect();

    ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = 
        new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, new ObjectQuery(query));
    ManagementObjectCollection retObjectCollection = searcher.Get();
    foreach (ManagementObject mo in retObjectCollection)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(mo.GetText(TextFormat.Mof));
    }
}