Noob Question on whether AutoIt is suitable

[MrCrispy]

Hi All

Extremely new to Autoit and my first task is to see if it's going to suitable for a job I need it to do...

I work for for an MSP, and we have 1000+ servers (mainly Windows) and I'm looking for something to automate the power down of our windows boxes. We have multiple customers, some might have only 5 servers, others might have 40+ and what I'm after doing is create some sort of work flow of dependency to shut down the Windows O/S on the servers e.g. shut down the web servers first, then app servers, then db servers.

I'm thinking along the lines of;

1. Shut down server A

2. Wait until server A is down (ping it?)

3. Shut down servers B & C

4. Wait until servers B & C are down

5. Shutdown server D

6. Wait until server D is down

7. Complete!

Thanks for any advice

J

[weaponx]

I would use PSShutdown from Sysinternals:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896649.aspx

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PSShutdown("\\ServerA")
If @ERROR Then
    MsgBox(0,"Error","ServerA failed to shutdown")
    Exit
EndIf

PSShutdown("\\ServerB")
If @ERROR Then
    MsgBox(0,"Error","ServerB failed to shutdown")
    Exit
EndIf

PSShutdown("\\ServerC")
If @ERROR Then
    MsgBox(0,"Error","ServerC failed to shutdown")
    Exit
EndIf

PSShutdown("\\ServerD")
If @ERROR Then
    MsgBox(0,"Error","ServerD failed to shutdown")
    Exit
EndIf

Func PSShutdown($sComputer)
    $result = RunWait(StringFormat("psshutdown.exe %s -f -k", $sComputer))
    If $exit_code = 1 Then ;Exit code 1 = SUCCESS
        ;Wait until server goes down
        Do
            $ping = Ping($sComputer)
            Sleep(500)
        Until $ping = 0
    Else
        Return SetError(1,0,0)
    EndIf
    Return SetError(0,0,0)
EndFunc

I'm not sure that Ping() supports double backslashes in the hostname, you may have to strip those with StringReplace or just use the IP address of each server.

Edited September 9, 2008 by weaponx