Monitoring my Main XP PC

Question

I want to program a small Windows Mobile Application, which Monitors my Main XP PC. IT should check if my PC is running and if the Internet connection is ok (perhaps by pinging a Sever).

In case something is wrong my Mobile Application should send me a SMS through the Mobile using mobile network (not through the Internet).

Is this possible can you provide me with some ideas?

Answer 1

You should look into WMI - it allows you to query a windows computer and gather all sorts of data; network information, hardware information, resource usage, the list goes on.

I've no experience with Windows Mobile so I'm unsure about whether you can perform WMI queries from it, however if not you could create an ASP.NET based interface which performs the actual WMI calls. You could then visit the ASP.NET page from your mobile device. The other option which operates in a similar fashion is using web services and calling these from your mobile app.

Here is the MSDN section on WMI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394582.aspx

Edit: Actually I went off on a bit of a tangent there; this idea doesn't use the mobile network as asked, my apologies.