remote shutdown script/tool

[fortune2k]

Hi guys,

I’m after a program or a script which at a certain time on set days (Monday - Friday @ 6:30) that will send from a server or computer system will sent out a signal across the whole network shutting down the computer in idle , logged off, sleep or locked state ( basically any system that is running). Does such thing exist if??? i dont mind linux or windows based anything that will do the job

Thanks guys

[burble]

Ignoring the obvious question of why a weekly reboot is necessary...

For Windows machines you could use the 'shutdown' command - have a look in the Windows 2003 resource kit.

D:\>shutdown
Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]

No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown
u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)

D:\>

For linux machines one option would be to either run the command from a linux machine or have Cygwin installed on a Windows box. You can then pass commands using ssh. For example:

ssh username@servertoberebooted shutdown -r now "Scheduled reboot"

Or some variant using sudo. Obviously this requires that you can login to the box using 'username' without being prompted for a password, have a read of public/private key authentication (the ssh-keygen command is your friend) to get that working.

[fortune2k]

well in ourt company people leave there machines on overnight which costs us money we want a simple soloution that will shutdown all the machines at a certain time each night saving us a bit of money. all the office machines are running win xp/win7/vista. I have played about with the shutdown commands for windows and it doesnt seem to work i would set it locally to shutdown my machine at a ceretain time lock my machine expecting it to be shutdown when i returned and it is still running. maybe there is a little program out there that will do the trick

[burble]

As long as you're running the shutdown command using an account that is an administrator on the machines you want to shut down then it should work. For me anyway it works fine, I've got one particular 2003 server (which is due to be retired in a few weeks) that never shuts down without a kick from the shutdown command.

[fortune2k]

hmmm i shall have another play and see if i can get it to work

[jim]

You might want to try psshutdown from the Server 2008 resource kit, it's meant to be a lot more effective than the shutdown command.

Having said that, I've never been able to get any of them to work, so I'm giving up for the time being.

[fortune2k]

hmmm when there is about 300-400 machines in the building putting in lines of commands will be a long and painful process im gonna have a look and see what google gets me.

[burble]

It's been ages since I used it, but doesn't Dameware let you see a list of machines, select a bunch of them and power them off?