Script to search for a computer name

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I have about 40 PCs in two rooms. At the moment, I use
batch file to shut down all the PCs in these two room. the
drawback is that if one of the pc is turned off, this
batch file take a long time to finish.
I would like to have a script to search for a computer
name so that it can shutdown right away instead of waiting
for timeout, and then proceed the next command line.
Thanks
 
ts said:
I have about 40 PCs in two rooms. At the moment, I use
batch file to shut down all the PCs in these two room. the
drawback is that if one of the pc is turned off, this
batch file take a long time to finish.
I would like to have a script to search for a computer
name so that it can shutdown right away instead of waiting
for timeout, and then proceed the next command line.
Thanks
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Hi

Ping the computer first and test for the text TTL to see if it is alive...

Command line solutions:

ping.exe -n 1 CompNameHere | find "TTL="

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I have about 40 PCs in two rooms. At the moment, I use
batch file to shut down all the PCs in these two room. the
drawback is that if one of the pc is turned off, this
batch file take a long time to finish.
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====Computerlist.csv====
computer1;192.168.1.1
computer2;192.168.1.2
====EOF=============

===SHUTDOWNALL.CMD===
for /F "tokens=1 delims=;" %%a in (computerlist.csv) do call :Step2
%%a
REM above is a single line ... no CR/LF
GOTO :EOF

:step2
for /F %%b in ('ping %1 -n 1 ^|find /I "Reply from"') do call
:shutthismachinedown %1
GOTO :EOF

:Shutthismachinedown
shutdown %1 <additional commands as requested>
GOTO :EOF
===EOF====

Ciao, Walter
 
can this batch file work with DHCP IP address ?? Thanks
Walter ??? it looks like to me that this only work if you
specify a static IP ???
 
can this batch file work with DHCP IP address ?? Thanks
Walter ??? it looks like to me that this only work if you
specify a static IP ???
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"tokens=1 delims=;" means picking up the computername instead of the
IP address. Therefore a static IP entry isn't used at all.

Ciao, Walter
 
Can i schedule this batch file to run ?? say 9:00pm it
will automatically run ?? Thanks
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You can schedule anything you want by using Start -> Settings ->
Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks. You have to run this task under a
account which has the privilege to shutdown the machines over the
network. .
Put this in front of the first CMD to call
cd \<path where your batches reside.>
example:
cd \utils\batches\shutdownall

Ciao, Walter
 
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