How to get IIS information via c#?

Question

How to get c# some IIS information like Version and some settings like Roles and Services.

*Note: My application is not Web.

Answer 1

One of the probably possible ways to do this is through consultations by WMI. Some information can be seen on the page IIS WMI Provider.

To work with the IIS and WMI, it is necessary to use the classes of namespace MicrosoftIISv2. There are some examples here.

Note: If you are using IIS 7, you need to enable compatibility with IIS 6 WMI, to power the MicrosoftIISv2 be present.

In that another page shows some examples of how to get information using WMI (tested on IIS 6 and Windows Server 2003).

I believe it is also possible to get some information with the class Environment. According to this page, this can also be done using the Request.ServerVariables, example:

lblServerIP.Text = Request.ServerVariables["LOCAL_ADDR"];
lblMachineName.Text = Environment.MachineName;
lblUserDomainName.Text = Environment.UserDomainName.ToString();
lblUserName.Text = Environment.UserName;
lblOSVersion.Text = Environment.OSVersion.ToString();
lblStartTime.Text = (Environment.TickCount / (1000 * 60 * 60)) + "Hours";
lblNowTime.Text = DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString();
lblIISVersion.Text = Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_SOFTWARE"];
lblIsHTTPS.Text = Request.ServerVariables["HTTPS"];
lblPATHS.Text = Request.ServerVariables["PATH_INFO"];
lblPATHS2.Text = Request.ServerVariables["PATH_TRANSLATED"];
lblPORT.Text = Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_PORT"];
lblSessionID.Text = Session.SessionID;

All variables can be viewed on the page IIS Server Variables.

Answer 2

Information about your OSI can be obtained using the ADSI provider. The examples are from IIS 6, but there would be no reason not to work in later versions of IIS.

In this article there are examples of how to get some information and even create websites on IIS.

Besides, there is still excellent article that teaches how to get IIS settings by Active Directory.

This article is also a more targeted effort to read IIS settings.