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Windows 2003 Remote Shutdown Script

We have three servers in or network (1-2008, 2-2003). The UPS software that performs the automated shutdown in case of a power failure didn't work quick enough yesterday when we had a power outage. I was not there to manually shut them down and two went down hard before the UPS shutdown completed.

I have a restart script that use for remote maintenance and just modified it for shutdown instead of restart. I've put it on the server 2008 desktop for the office mgr to use incase of an emergency. Now I'd like to create a script she can execute to manually shutdown the two other servers.

Here is a quick script that runs on the 2008 server.

cd\
net stop "AeLookupSvc" /y
net stop "AppHostSvc" /y
net stop "QuickBooksDB20" /y
net stop "QBCFMonitorService" /y
net stop "Spooler" /y
....
shutdown /s /t /30 /f /d /p:4:1

I have a shutdown file very simular to this on the two 2003 servers in the domain. How do I automate the remote shutdown of both of them from the 2008 server properly?

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Gerwin Jansen

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Tony Giangreco

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Yes, I know that. Looking at the script above, what is the syntax to shutdown server #2 and #3 from Server #1?

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serchlop

sorry, i missed a parameter in shutdown

sc \\server2 "AeLookupSvc" stop
sc \\server2 "AppHostSvc" stop
....
shutdown /m \\server2 /s /t 30 /f /d /p:4:1

serchlop

sorry, another error, I should sleep a little more today...
sc uses server command service syntax

sc \\server2 stop "AeLookupSvc"
sc \\server2 stop "AppHostSvc"
....
shutdown /m \\server2 /s /t 30 /f /d /p:4:1

serchlop

if your server aren't in a domain, you can use psexec command using username and pass for the destination server.

the script could be like this

psexec \\server2 -u server2\username - p password net stop "AeLookupSvc" /y
psexec \\server2 -u server2\username - p password net stop "AppHostSvc" /y
psexec \\server2 -u server2\username - p password net stop "QuickBooksDB20" /y
psexec \\server2 -u server2\username - p password net stop "QBCFMonitorService" /y
psexec \\server2 -u server2\username - p password net stop "Spooler" /y
....
psexec \\server2 -u server2\username - p password shutdown /s /t 30 /f /d /p:4:1

Tony Giangreco

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Hi serchlop,

I will schedule network downtime next week and try this out. I need to be onsite to manually the servers back on.

serchlop

If your servers support wake on lan, you can use free wolcmd tool to start them remotely, you should enable in routers or communication hardware.

Tony Giangreco

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I tried this on Friday but had problems with the syntax. My maintenance window closed. I will try again this week.

serchlop

Ok, I use the following command to wake up a server in my company

Syntax
WolCmd.exe MAC IP NetworkMask PortWakeOnLAN

in another power on server I run

WolCmd.exe 001111222233 10.0.1.17 255.255.255.0 7

change 001111222233 for your MAC Address for your NIC in server you want to start
change 10.0.1.17 for the ip for your server