Remotrly shutdown a windows server
Author: - Dinesh Aggarwal
From the command line you can shutdown or restart any windows 2003 server, windows XP, windows Vista and Windows 2000/NT servers. You simply need to use shutdown.exe command.
Following options are available in the shutdown command of windows 2003 server
Usage: shutdown [/i | /l | /s | /r | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f] [/m \\computer][/t xxx][/d [p:]xx:yy [/c "comment"]]
/? |
Display help. This is the same as not typing any options |
/i |
Display the graphical user interface (GUI).This must be the first option |
/l |
Log off. This cannot be used with /m or /d option. |
/s |
Shutdown the computer |
/r |
Shutdown and restart the computer |
/a |
Abort a system shutdown. This can only be used during the time-out period |
/p |
Turn off the local computer with no time-out or warning. This can only be used with /d option |
/h |
Hibernate the local computer. This can only be used with the /f option |
/e |
Document the reason for an unexpected shutdown of a computer |
/m \\computer |
Specify the target computer |
/t xxx |
Set time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds. The valid range is 0-600, with a default of 30 |
/c "comment" |
Comment on the reason for the restart or shutdown. Maximum of 127 characters allowed |
/f |
Force running applications to close without forewarning users |
/d [p:]xx:yy |
Provide the reason for the restart or shutdown. p indicates that the restart or shutdown is planned xx is the major reason number (positive integer less than 256) yy is the minor reason number (positive integer less than 65536) |
Example 1:- Shutdown /r /m \\10.10.10.1
The above command will reboot a remote windows server having IP address 10.10.10. Please note that the shutdown command is not case sensitive.
Example 2:-After you issue the /s or /r, a dialog box appears with a 30 second count down. During this timeout period you can issue shutdown /a command to abort the shutdown. This is very useful is someone entered the shutdown command by mistake.
Shutdown /t command is used for specifying the time. 30 seconds is the default count down time. By using /t option you can specify a maximum time to 600 seconds.
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