How to get currently connected systems in a domain using c#

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I want the details of currently online systems in a network using c#. Our machines connected through Windows Server 2012. How to achieve this goal ? someone guide if I am wrong? This program going to run on Server machine.

Posted 31-Jul-15 0:54am

Sarath kumar.N

Updated 31-Jul-15 1:15am

John C Rayan

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John C Rayan 31-Jul-15 7:04am

Need more info.

Sarath kumar.N 31-Jul-15 7:06am

One winForm application running in windows server machine. That will collect the currently connected user with server. That application looks for change at every 2 mins.

John C Rayan 31-Jul-15 7:14am

Are you saying that you are trying to collect the user details who are connected to the server? I am not sure I understood you entirely.

Sarath kumar.N 31-Jul-15 7:18am

Yeah, I want know how many systems current online? If online who is the current user?

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himanshu agarwal · Answer 1 · 2015-07-31T01:17:00

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This could be easy or significantly time consuming based on whether you are writing an enterprise application or something just for your use.

There are monitoring solutions available like SCOM which can discover and collect information from various machines.

If you are writing your own app then you should think of certain things:

1. Authentication
2. Communication (agentless or agent based and, protocol WMI/Powershell/etc.)

For a small application, I'd suggest using remote powershell. The following link has a powershell script for getting logged on user information from machine.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/d46b1f3b-36a4-4a56-951b-e37815a2df0c[^]

Posted 31-Jul-15 1:17am

himanshu agarwal

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Sarath kumar.N 31-Jul-15 7:22am

This application for an company. they own more than 1000 systems. If I got the results from power shell script how can I use that in my app? pls suggest

himanshu agarwal 31-Jul-15 7:36am

Just call this script from your application.

You may refer to these posts for sample code.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/527513/execute-powershell-script-from-c-sharp-with-commandline-arguments

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18229/How-to-run-PowerShell-scripts-from-C

Sarath kumar.N 31-Jul-15 7:43am

You mentioned a script from Microsoft. I tried to run that. But that is not showing anything. Scripts automatically closing after open.

himanshu agarwal 1-Aug-15 5:25am

you may have to read the documentation or tweak it as per your need.