Restart iis on remote machine ( we have ip address ) by c# code

Question

Hello How can restart iis on a remote machine? I know the ip address and admin user's user name and password information.

Answer 1

How remote is remote? You could just execute Shutdown.exe from your c# code? If that's not possible (firewalls etc) then the next best would probably be putting a service on there that you could call remotely (and securely!) that shuts the machine down.

Answer 2

You could use the "sc" command in order to control the iis-service on the remote machine.

sc \\RemoteServer stop [iis-service-name]

Use

sc help

in order to get a list of possible arguments.

Also take a look at a microsoft kb-article on your subject.

Answer 3

I think shutdown.exe closes the computer but only I want is to restart the iis. I will restart a remote machine which is on the same network. And I know the ip address and user credential information.

and how can I call sc command from c#?

Answer 4

You could use sc, as Thomas Franke suggested:

sc \\RemoteServer stop iisadmin
sc \\RemoteServer start w3svc

or SysInternals' psexec. The PsTools suite is useful for these scenarios.

psexec \\RemoteServer iisreset

Answer 5

ok thank you my code is like below but it does not work :( can you help me

System.Security.SecureString pwd = new System.Security.SecureString();
        pwd.AppendChar('p');
        pwd.AppendChar('a');
        pwd.AppendChar('s');
        pwd.AppendChar('s');
        pwd.AppendChar('1');
        pwd.AppendChar('2');
        pwd.AppendChar('3');
        string computerName = "WORKPC1201";
        string domain = "EXTRAWORKDOMAIN";
        Process myProcess = new Process();
        //ProcessStartInfo remoteAdmin =
        //    new ProcessStartInfo("psexec.exe", domain + "\\\\" + computerName + " -i -c \"ie.bat\"");
        ProcessStartInfo remoteAdmin =
           new ProcessStartInfo("c:\\Windows\\System32\\sc.exe", "\\\\" + computerName + " stop iisadmin");
        remoteAdmin.UserName = "adminuser";
        remoteAdmin.Password = pwd;
        remoteAdmin.Domain = domain;
        myProcess.StartInfo = remoteAdmin;
        myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        myProcess.Start();
        myProcess.WaitForExit();