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[cntour]

I wrote a script to shut down remote PCs using "shutdown" command.

My problem is this command is time consuming and it takes a long time to shutdown all those 80 PCs on my list. It will take longer time before return error message if that PC is offline.

I am considering alternative to shut them down.

Any suggestions? Thanks a lot.

[Bert]

Do a ping loop to see what PCs are online first. If you get a reply, then you know the PC is up, and you can then send the shutdown command only to the ones that are up.

[LarryDalooza]

If you are savvy, you will use Run() with the STDOUT flag and the PID returned and collect STDOUT into an array of buffers and check the buffers for success. I don't know if SHUTDOWN.EXE reports success within the STDOUT stream... but maybe it does.

Lar.

[cntour]

Thanks Volly and Larry. I will ping them first.

I am considering split my list into 2 txt file. For example, I use "sd.exe list.txt" to shut down all PC. now I split the list.txt into list1.txt and list2.txt, and schedule them to run at the same time. Is that feasible?

Thanx!!