Best way to shutdown several remote windows 2003 server from 1 ser   

I'm new to WMI programming and I have a case: Shutdown several remote servers 
running Windows 2003 x32 and x64 from one server. 

The condition are:
1. Servers cannot be shutdown simultaneously - must be shutdown in order.
    ex. Specific services on Server A must be stopped first, then when 
services are stopped the Server A is shutdown. After server A is shutdown, 
then Server B can be shutdown.

I already thought about old fashion way, which is: writing vbscript that 
shutdown server A (using command line "shutdown -f -t, etc") and looping 
while pinging its IP address, when the feedback is "request time out" then I 
continue shutting down server B.
But I'm not sure if this is the best scenario, cause I cannot detect the 
services state and I think this scenario is vulnerable.

Thank you for solution in advance.

Regards,

David

date: Wed, 7 May 2008 21:55:00 -0700   author:   David$oegiharto

Re: Best way to shutdown several remote windows 2003 server from 1 ser   

Hi,

With WMI you can send a shut down command to the service on the first 
server, then wait in a .Sleep(2000) loop until it gives a "stopped" 
status code, then continue shutting down the second server.

David$oegiharto wrote:
> I'm new to WMI programming and I have a case: Shutdown several remote servers 
> running Windows 2003 x32 and x64 from one server. 
> 
> The condition are:
> 1. Servers cannot be shutdown simultaneously - must be shutdown in order.
>     ex. Specific services on Server A must be stopped first, then when 
> services are stopped the Server A is shutdown. After server A is shutdown, 
> then Server B can be shutdown.
> 
> I already thought about old fashion way, which is: writing vbscript that 
> shutdown server A (using command line "shutdown -f -t, etc") and looping 
> while pinging its IP address, when the feedback is "request time out" then I 
> continue shutting down server B.
> But I'm not sure if this is the best scenario, cause I cannot detect the 
> services state and I think this scenario is vulnerable.
> 
> Thank you for solution in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
>     


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Gerry Hickman (London UK)

date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:17:51 +0100   author:   Gerry Hickman am