[BUG] Windows: ps.psaux requires a "ps" command to work

[dafyddj]

Description
The execution function ps.psaux requires the ps command to work which is non-standard on Windows

Setup

Standard Windows install using .exe installer

• on-prem machine
• VM (Virtualbox, KVM, etc. please specify)
• VM running on a cloud service, please be explicit and add details
• container (Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, etc. please specify)
• or a combination, please be explicit
• jails if it is FreeBSD
• classic packaging
• onedir packaging
• used bootstrap to install

Steps to Reproduce the behavior

PS C:\Users\User> salt-call ps.psaux Python
Error running 'ps.psaux': Unable to run command 'ps aux'
with the context '{'cwd': 'C:\\Users\\User', 'shell': False,
'env': {'ALLUSERSPROFILE': 'C:\\ProgramData', 'APPDATA':
'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Roaming', 'CommonProgramFiles':
'C:\\Program Files\\Common Files',
'CommonProgramFiles(Arm)': 'C:\\Program Files (Arm)\\Common
Files', 'CommonProgramFiles(x86)': 'C:\\Program Files
(x86)\\Common Files', 'CommonProgramW6432': 'C:\\Program
Files\\Common Files', 'COMPUTERNAME': 'WINDOWS-K3E3JQ8',
'ComSpec': 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe', 'DriverData':
'C:\\Windows\\System32\\Drivers\\DriverData', 'EFC_5008':
'0', 'FPS_BROWSER_APP_PROFILE_STRING': 'Internet Explorer',
'FPS_BROWSER_USER_PROFILE_STRING': 'Default', 'HOMEDRIVE':
'C:', 'HOMEPATH': '\\Users\\User', 'LOCALAPPDATA':
'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local', 'LOGONSERVER':
'\\\\WINDOWS-K3E3JQ8', 'NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS': '2',
'OneDrive': 'C:\\Users\\User\\OneDrive', 'OS': 'Windows_NT',
'Path':
'C:\\Windows\\system32;C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Windows\\System32\\OpenSSH\\;C:\\Program
Files\\Salt
Project\\Salt;C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps;',
'PATHEXT':
'.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC;.CPL',
'PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE': 'AMD64', 'PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER':
'ARMv8 (64-bit) Family 8 Model 0 Revision   0, QEMU',
'PROCESSOR_LEVEL': '0', 'PROCESSOR_REVISION': '0000',
'ProgramData': 'C:\\ProgramData', 'ProgramFiles':
'C:\\Program Files', 'ProgramFiles(Arm)': 'C:\\Program Files
(Arm)', 'ProgramFiles(x86)': 'C:\\Program Files (x86)',
'ProgramW6432': 'C:\\Program Files', 'PSModulePath':
'C:\\Users\\User\\Documents\\WindowsPowerShell\\Modules;C:\\Program
Files\\WindowsPowerShell\\Modules;C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\Modules',
'PUBLIC': 'C:\\Users\\Public', 'SESSIONNAME': 'Console',
'SystemDrive': 'C:', 'SystemRoot': 'C:\\Windows', 'TEMP':
'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp', 'TMP':
'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp', 'USERDOMAIN':
'WINDOWS-K3E3JQ8', 'USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE':
'WINDOWS-K3E3JQ8', 'USERNAME': 'User', 'USERPROFILE':
'C:\\Users\\User', 'windir': 'C:\\Windows'}, 'stdin': None,
'stdout': -1, 'stderr': -2, 'with_communicate': True,
'timeout': None, 'bg': False}', reason: [WinError 2] The
system cannot find the file specified

Expected behavior

Either for the function to work as expected, or the documentation to make clear that it doesn't work on Windows.

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Versions Report

salt --versions-report

(Provided by running salt --versions-report. Please also mention any differences in master/minion versions.)

Salt Version:
          Salt: 3006.3

Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.13 (heads/main:7ee24e6, Sep  6 2023, 02:19:49) [MSC v.1936 64 bit (AMD64)]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 1.14.6
      cherrypy: 18.6.1
      dateutil: 2.8.1
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: 4.0.7
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.2
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.0.2
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.2
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 22.0
     pycparser: 2.21
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.10.1
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.4.8
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 25.0.2
        relenv: 0.13.10
         smmap: 4.0.0
       timelib: 0.2.4
       Tornado: 4.5.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.4

System Versions:
          dist:
        locale: cp1252
       machine: AMD64
       release: 10
        system: Windows
       version: 10 10.0.22621 SP0 Multiprocessor Free

Additional context
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[twangboy]

We need to look at using psutil to emulate ps aux behavior so that it is platform agnostic. If that's not possible, then use the Get-Process commandlet in PowerShell