No, I Will Not Fix Your #@$!! Computer → [Windows] Monitor dll usage on a remote computer in real time

I'm trying to patch the Oracle database client on a remote machine and it keeps telling me that a number of the DLLs are in use in the log file and exits the Opatch utility with a 73 exit code. I've tried capturing the exe(s) using the dlls with psexec \\machinename cmd.exe using tasklist /m DLLNAME or handle DLLName from Sysinternals but apparently either those can't see all DLL usage or they are only in use for a split second and I haven't been able to run it at the right time to catch the usage.

So I looked at procexp.exe from sysinternals and it would work if I could be on the box when I'm patching it, but I'm not. Is there some other utility I can run on a remote machine that can log DLL usage by name or path in real time?

Thanks,

TD

Have you tried the sysinternals "handle"?
»docs.microsoft.com/en-us ··· s/handle

Check out procmon from sysinternals. I'm not sure you can run it remotely, though....never had a need to. But it dumps just about everything that happens on the system.

Yeah, I mentioned that in the original post, but it doesn't stand out.

TD

I might be able to but I'm not sure if it logs dll usage. If it does, I might try that. I took a quick look and didn't see anything about dlls but I'll look again. They do talk about how to run it via psexec then grab the logs for analysis.

TD