Kill remotely LabVIEW process on Windows 7 and 8.

[Michel_Gauvin]

Hello,

What is the best way to kill "remotely" a LabVIEW process.  Example: Computer A wants to kill a LabVIEW executable on Computer B.  Both computers can run Windows 7 or 8.  The two computers are on  my LAN and I have the administrative priviledge on them.

I have tried with "pstools" but I can't get it to work.

Thanks,

Michel

[zou]

If you can change the LabVIEW program, than add a TCP listener in it.  On Computer B, send a message, e.g. "Exit", to terminate the LabVIEW program nicely.

If you can't change the program, then try Windows Remote desktop.

[Michel_Gauvin]

My current need is to kill the LabVIEW application that runs on Computer B programmatically from a LabVIEW application that runs on computer A.

Thanks,

[zou · Accepted solution]

So can you change LabVIEW program on both computers?

If not, can you create a new program just to kill the named process?

[Michel_Gauvin]

Hello zou,

Yes I can modify both application and I can create a new one.

I'm going with the creation of a new one.  The kill was in the case where the application hang (for any reasons) after a few month.  A backup application will take over but I want the backup application to "try" to kill the previous active one.

Thanks,

Michel

[zou]

Have you played the Windows service before?

LabVIEW can create a Windows service.

Use a service to monitor an application to make sure it works.

If not, kill it and launch another instance of it.

Hopefullly, a LabVIEW service is more reliable than a LabVIEW application.

[Michel_Gauvin]

Hello Zou,

The windows service is a good idea which I want to pursue.  I never played with windows service in the past and I've made search on ni.com to find how to make one to run under Windows 7 or 8 but without any success.  Do you have a link that you can share that explains how to do it?

Thanks,

Michel

[zou]

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/21BA0F671A63A60386256CB4004DF99B

[zou]

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/21BA0F671A63A60386256CB4004DF99B