How to get the description of a running process on a remote machine?

Question

I have tried two ways to accomplish this so far.

The first way, I used System.Diagnostics, but I get a NotSupportedException of "Feature is not supported for remote machines" on the MainModule.

foreach (Process runningProcess in Process.GetProcesses(server.Name))
{
    Console.WriteLine(runningProcess.MainModule.FileVersionInfo.FileDescription);
}

The second way, I attempted using System.Management but it seems that the Description of the ManagementObject is the she same as the Name.

string scope = @"\\" + server.Name + @"\root\cimv2";
string query = "select * from Win32_Process";
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query);
ManagementObjectCollection collection = searcher.Get();

foreach (ManagementObject obj in collection)
{
    Console.WriteLine(obj["Name"].ToString());
    Console.WriteLine(obj["Description"].ToString());
}

Would anyone happen to know of a better way to go about getting the descriptions of a running process on a remote machine?

Answer 1

Well I think I've got a method of doing this that will work well enough for my purposes. I'm basically getting the file path off of the ManagementObject and getting the description from the actual file.

ConnectionOptions connection = new ConnectionOptions();
connection.Username = "username";
connection.Password = "password";
connection.Authority = "ntlmdomain:DOMAIN";

ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(@"\\" + serverName + @"\root\cimv2", connection);
scope.Connect();

ObjectQuery query = new ObjectQuery("select * from Win32_Process");
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query);
ManagementObjectCollection collection = searcher.Get();

foreach (ManagementObject obj in collection)
{
    if (obj["ExecutablePath"] != null)
    {
        string processPath = obj["ExecutablePath"].ToString().Replace(":", "$");
        processPath = @"\\" + serverName + @"\" + processPath;

        FileVersionInfo info = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(processPath);
        string processDesc = info.FileDescription;
    }
}