Thank you in advance for you ideas and input.

I would like to periodically check to see if a third party program is currently running on a user's system from my program. I am currently launching the program as follows in C#:

        String plinkConString = ""; // my connection string
        Process plink = Process.Start(utilityPath + @"\putty.exe", plinkConString);
        int plinkProcessId = plink.Id;

I launch the program and grab its pid in a Windows environment. As Putty/PLink may disconnect from its SSH server at some point and close, what is the best way to monitor how this process is doing in code?

Is there a better way to launch this program to monitor its success or failure?