Getting Process IDs

[TomSark]

Does anyone know how to obtain a process id for a process running on an NT Server?

For a given process name, I want to obtain the associated process ID, such as that which you would find when you list running processes in Task Manager...

Thanks in Advance...

Tom

 

[Alt255]

There's a lot of good NT specific stuff at

http://www.netfokus.dk/vbadmincode/

I haven't tried this but you might be able to get what you need from the code in:

http://www.netfokus.dk/vbadmincode/code/qrysvc.zip

Alt255@Vorpalcom.Intranets.com
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[TomSark]

This site has some very useful examples, but not exactly what I'm looking for. I need to get the process ID for certain processes.

Basically... I want to programmatically get the same into about processes that Task Manager does...

Thanks Alt255 for the response though..

Tom

 

[TomSark]

Let me rephrase the question: How do I enumerate all running processes on an NT server in order to obtain the data in the PROCESS_INFORMATION structure?

Tom

 

[TomSark]

BTW... I'm using NT 4.0 so I will need to somehow obtain the handle to all of the processes...

Tom

 

[dsi]

There is a FAQ to list all applications running on NT.

faq222-61

You could incorporate the GetProcessID function to get what you need.

 

[TomSark]

Solution 2 in the FAQ looks like what I am looking for. But... how do I make use of the CreateToolhelpSnapshot API call.. I doesn't seem to exist in kernal32...

Thanks,

Tom

 

[TomSark]

Oops.. that KERNEL32... LOL

Tom

 

[TomSark]

I've just discovered that this is a Windows 2000 ONLY API call... and solution 1 in the FAQ won't work because I want to peer into MTS processes (mtx.exe). Any other suggestions?

Tom

 

[TomSark]

Hi,

After doing extensive research, if found a way to do this in NT 4. An article at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period98/hood0398.htm

answers most of this. They cheat and go through the perfmon objects (process counter) to get the info. You can get all kinds of process-releated info from the counter's instance data...

Tom

 

[bburnell]

I have code that may help you. It checks to see if a certain program is running under NT and checks to see its CPU time. It cancels the job if the job stops responding. Email me if you need it.
brett_burnell@email.com
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