I need to monitor the status of an application in the applications pool of IIS 7 from an other machine on the same domain. My monitoring application must be in C# and running as a Windows service.

On my server, I create a user with administration rights and I execute the command aspnet_regiis -ga machine\username wich worked succesfully.

My problem is when I try to access the application pool i still get COMExcepttion "Access denied". What did i do wrong or wich step did i miss?

I used code from http://patelshailesh.com/index.php/create-a-website-application-pool-programmatically-using-csharp as example.

        int status = 0;
        string ipAddress = "10.20.2.13";
        string username = "username";
        string password = "password";
        try
        {
            DirectoryEntry de = new DirectoryEntry(string.Format("IIS://{0}/W3SVC/AppPools/MyAppPoolName", ipAddress), username, password);

            //the exception is thron here.
            status = (int)de.InvokeGet("AppPoolState");

            switch (status)
            {
                case 2:
                    //Runnig
                    break;
                case 4:
                    //Stopped
                    break;
                default:
                    break;
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {

        }