Shutdown batch script stalls if 1 PC is shut down

[PrimaryTech]

Hi there.

 

Currently I am using a batch file consisting of a list of shutdown commands to shutdown our ICT suite (17 PC's all XP SP2). I am finding that if one of the PC's has been shutdown prior to the batch file running the batch file hangs at the command to shutdown that PC.

 

Has anybody got a solution/command/workaround that will ignore/skip PC's that are already shutdown? I know its only 17 PC's and they're all in 1 room but I want to run the script as a scheduled task.

 

Any ideas welcome!

[ChrisH]

Parse the output of a ping command to see if host is alive before thtryingt o shut it down.

[PiqueABoo]

Much of a muchness, but if it's a script, I think it's slightly nicer to use a WMI Win32_PingStatus query

[ajbritton]

One possible way around this would be to add a scheduled task on each PC to perform a shutdown at a specific time. This could be installed/managed from a startup script.

[Guest Guest]

Or just use this http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/

[Guest]

we use http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psshutdown.mspx

 

works well

[PrimaryTech]

Cheers guys! I tried the psshutdown and it works great, now just gotta implement WoL to get them back up automatically...

[mrcrazy04]

I use the ASP version of this for my Wake On LAN portion of my ASP based management console.

[kearton]

We use this:

http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm