I would like to create an application that displays the status of my machines almost real-time (Run, Down, or idle etc). And I'm wondering what is the common method to accomplish this? Do you tell the application to keep going out and getting the status of the machines at a specific interval? or Do you have a way for the application to just 'listen' if a status update is available for the specific machines? If so, how? I only have a 'Read' access to the database. Also, other applications update the database (and I don't have access to those applications.) My application will be in VB.NET. Thanks for any leads.Checking if a machine is up or down or it's status is not related to your database in any way.
Most of the people I know that do this utilize ADSI or WMI to accomplish the desired effect with timers to continue to call upon the servers as necessary.
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