How can i access machine on same network and start a service?

Question

I have winforms application which accesses WCF service on some Windows machine on same network. Sometimes WCF service is down due to some error in it, i want to be able to access machine with service and start the service up if it's down.

I want to do that from WinForms C# application.

How do i access Windows machine from WinForms application and execute command on it. ie

sc \machine stop

check this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/187836/how-do-i-restart-a-service-on-a-remote-machine-in-windows — Davide Piras, Nov 29 '11 at 13:39
please explain what you have tried and also make it more of a programming question. — Daniel A. White, Nov 29 '11 at 13:48
Looks like a dupe - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1454502/how-can-i-restart-a-windows-service-programatically-in-net — dsolimano, Nov 29 '11 at 14:18

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '11 at 14:08

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Try the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController class.

var svc = new ServiceController("WCFServiceName", "ComputerName");
if (svc.Status == ControllerStatus.Stopped)
{
  sc.Start();
}

answered Nov 29 '11 at 14:08

Simon

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