Remote Shutdown Query

[Kained]

I have a batch file that shutdowns down a whole room, with a mesage and a timer this works fine, the problem is if one or two of the pcs in the room are already off it seems to take a long while to go onto the next machine is there anyway of telling it to only wait a set period of time before it moves onto the next pc ?

For example:

Shutdown -s -m \\PCName -t 100
'Some command here to check if the next pc is on?
Shutdown -s -m \\PCName -t 100
Shutdown -s -m \\PCName -t 100

Any help would be appreciated.

[Busybub]

Try it all on one line:

Shutdown -s -m \\PCName -t 100 | Shutdown -s -m \\PCName -t 100 | etc

I have this working in a room of 30 and it shuts them all down at the same time, doesn't make any difference if some of them are already off.

[Geoff]

prepend the 'start' command to each line. That way the shutdown commands will run in parallel and your script will not get stuck.

[Kained]

prepend the 'start' command to each line. That way the shutdown commands will run in parallel and your script will not get stuck.

Hi could you give me an example did you mean

Start Shutdown -s -m \\pcname -t 100

?

[Geoff]

yes, that's correct.

[apeo]

May be OTT but i use a vbscript to read compy names from a csv file and send a shutdown command to each on in the list. As its done this way, the shutdown command is in a separate windows shell so even if one hags the others are unaffected and i need only update the csv file if anything changes, not the script.

[mac_shinobi]

apeo

Any chance I can get a copy of that script or post it on here or something

thanks

[enjay]

How about creating a batch file per PC and then having your scheduled task call all those batch files? The schedule will run pc1.bat and then immediately go on to pc2.bat regardless of whether or not pc1 ever responded.

[apeo]

Sure here it is:

Dim objFSO, ObjTextFile
Dim CurLine, arrCurRecord
Dim strCompName
Dim WshShell

on error resume next

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("d:\shutdown\complist.csv", 1)

While objTextFile.atendofstream <> True 'Keep going until the end of the file
	CurLine=objTextFile.readline 'Read the current line
	arrCurRecord=split(CurLine,",") 'Split the line into records at every ","
	strCompName=arrCurRecord(0)
	'send shutdown command
	wshShell.run "c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -s -f -m \\" & strCompName
Wend 'do while objTextFile.atendofstream <> true

'clean up
Set objTextFile = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
Set WshShell = Nothing

Ok having looked at my current one, i decided to make a few changes and this is what it looks like now. The csv file only contains a list of computer names but you could have other info in there if you wish so long as the first column is the computer name this should still work.

[srochford]

On the basis that it's always good to have multiple ways of doing the same thing, my version is at http://techinfo.cnwl.ac.uk/Windows%2...0computers.htm

Instead of reading a fixed list of computers, it tries to find out which ones are switched on. It pings them to make sure they are on and then shuts them down.

[apeo]

Funny I have code that pings compy but i use it for something else.