Performance Counters

[Jerry Negrelli]

What is happening behind the scenes when I call
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter on a remote
machine? Is it connecting via RPC? What security
context is it run under? Any explanation or links would
be much appreciated!

JER

 

[Alvin Bruney]

start here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/cpgenref/html/gngrfperformancecounters.asp

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Exactly the same thing that happens when dealing with non managed code.
The System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter classes are just calling the Win32 API's (like RegConnectRegistry). When querying remote
systems, the client connects to the remote system registry service using SMB protocol based RPC's.

Willy.