Automatic PC Shutdown on an evening

[lindsayecroft]

Hi there, I am sick of trawling the internet to no avail trying to find a decent bit of software to automate PC shutdown on an evening and was wondering if anyone has some good suggestions for some software i could try.

 

Thankyou

[Guest metalmonkey]

LanView 3?

 

http://www.mst-software.co.uk/

[plexer]

If's XP machines you want to shutdown then you can use the inbuilt shutdown command and do it against remote machines.

 

Or pshutdown.

 

Ben

[leon]

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8269

 

...might help.

[Scotmk]

In our new ICT rooms, we have had big red buttons installed at the door, which kills all power to the room. lol, seriously.

[apoth0r]

Impero allows you to shutdown pc's remotely, I believe you can automate it, but to be honest I enjoy shutting them all off myself remotely knowing that it's been done.

Wish the monitors were automated too, pain in the ass

[6Foot2]

PSShutdown works fine here. It works fine. Pity about the rest of network management tools!

[SpuffMonkey]

PSShutdown works fine here. It works fine. Pity about the rest of network management tools!

 

PSShutdown - seconded!

[meastaugh1]

I use beyondexec as it allows me to shutdown computers not logged on early in the afternoon, then all computers in the evening.

[EeEk]

We use the System Shutdown msi posted

In this Thread

 

Easy enough to send it to any/all machines through group policy.

[mullet_man]

In our new ICT rooms, we have had big red buttons installed at the door, which kills all power to the room. lol, seriously.

 

Don't the kids just press it then??

[zag]

I just run a batch file.

 

shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol01
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol02
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol03
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol04
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol05
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol06
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol07
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol08
shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\ol10

 

Just replace the \\ol** with the computer names.

 

The only problem with this script is the time it takes to work out a computer is already shutdown. I'm sure I could put some logic into it to ping the machines first.