Monitoring a process in NT (code)

deprecated has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

We're running an NT cluster here for some massive-scale OCR'ing. The problem with this is that Adobe's software, Capture, is superbuggy and crashes frequently. However, it's tough to keep track of all the separate NT boxes, so sometimes we dont find out a process has crashed until even a week later, and then we have to play catchup with that particular box.

I'd like to know if somebody out there has written a script to keep track of whether a particular process is still running on an NT box. I know how I'd do it on unix.

thanks,
brother dep.

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Re: Monitoring a process in NT (PM Snippet) by ybiC (Prior) on Oct 11, 2001 at 22:51 UTC
"(code) Check for particular services running on remote WinNT host(s)" does what I think you're asking for, brotherDep. I expect there's a Win32 module to do that very thing, but I didn't have time at the time to (find\|figure) it out, so used `system` call and backticks around `netsvc.exe`. cheers, Don striving toward Perl Adept (it's pronounced "why-bick")	[reply]
Re: Monitoring a process in NT (code) by Asim (Hermit) on Oct 11, 2001 at 22:48 UTC
Been a while since I've done it, and I don't have the code at hand. The standard Win32::Process module only controls processes it creates, as I recall; try the IProcess module to control any process on a Win32 box. ----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.	[reply]