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Firoso
Firoso

Reputation: 6685

How can I start an application on a different system remotely?

I've got a situation where i have one system running a master application that communicates with slave applets on other systems, problem is, i can't guarentee that the slave applets will be running, nor that an operator can physically utilize the system to start the applet (and I'm also assuming they don't know how to use Remote desktop, these are minimum wage test operators)

Is there an easy way to remotely launch an executeable on another system?

security is not a concern here as this is a closed network.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 11887

Answers (6)

Eamonn O'Connor
Eamonn O'Connor

Reputation: 1

another simple solution if you're not on the same network (accessing your home computer to run teamviewer for example) is to create a rule in Outlook (if you have it) whereas if you receive an email say from yourself, you can have it start an application if there are certain pieces of text in the message body or subject line, for example:

Create a mailbox rule: Step 1 - Conditions: From & With specific words in the body (from being your mail address and the message body: Start Teamviewer Step 2 - Start Application (browse to the location of the .exe you want to launch) Step 3 - enable that bad boy!

Obviously, you have to have Outlook open and accepting incoming mail in order for this to work.

you can tailor this to your requirements, ie: if Start Teamviewer is too easy, you can put codes or passwords in there too, so when the email arrives, it'll read the message, recognise the info based on the rule, and launch the application. :)

Upvotes: 0

Kev
Kev

Reputation: 119856

WMI is your friend. See the following article which covers starting processes locally and remotely using WMI:

How To: (Almost) Everything In WMI via C# Part 2: Processes (CodeProject)

Kev

Upvotes: 5

John Saunders
John Saunders

Reputation: 161831

Any chance of converting the remote applets into Windows services? They can be configured to start when the system starts; to retry if they fail; and to notify someone if there are problems. They're quite trivial to create with Visual Studio.

Upvotes: 1

Jason DeFontes
Jason DeFontes

Reputation: 2285

You can use the Windows AT command to schedule tasks on a remote machine.

Upvotes: 1

abhilash
abhilash

Reputation: 5651

here's a 2 step solution

  1. Write a batch file to kick start the application/service in the context
  2. Have the batch file on a shared network path which can be accessed from the machine would like to launch the application/service.

Honestly, I would suggest the PsExec solution by Piskvor. But you can try out this as well ;)

Upvotes: 0

Piskvor left the building
Piskvor left the building

Reputation: 92792

If you're on the same network and have access credentials (username+password) to the remote computer, then Mark Russinovich's PsExec is just the tool you need.

Upvotes: 7

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