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I need a tool/application/doo-hickey that will allow me to remotely shut down a Mac (probably 10.4 by the time I need to do this, but possibly 10.3.x), more precisely a bunch of Macs, over a network. It needs to have the following capabilities or options:
1. Allow me to specify how long after the program is run the computer will shut down. I prefer being able to specify a clock time, but # of seconds is ok too. It must be manually invoked -- not something that is only capable of being pre-scheduled.
2. Be able to be run from the equivalent of a batch file (whatever that means in the Mac world -- I don't know anything about operating from the OS X command line, only a Windows one, but I can learn). Having to click something per station is not satisfactory, as I could potentially need to shut down up to 90 computers with this thing.
3. Pop up a box for the user so they can see the countdown, and allow me to configure a message in that box.
4. Not be closeable or cancelable by the average user (I don't expect protection against specialized knowledge of killing processes or whatnot).
5. Be configurable to not offer the option to save changes on any open files, i.e., to simply pull the rug out from under the user if that's what I desire.
6. A configurable timeout would be a huge bonus. The network is extremely squirrely (fur in the cables and everything; you have no idea) and I don't want to have a station be skipped just because the program didn't wait long enough, or conversely, to spend too much time trying to connect to one in the middle of a row that is already off (which Shouldn't Happen, but sometimes does anyway).
The current setup (for PCs exclusively) is that I run psshutdown.exe by executing one batch file per row of 10, which has proven to be the most practical way to do it. Right now we only have 6 Macs, which are rarely used, so I've been ignoring the very-occasional case of someone still using one at closing time. Sometime within the next year, however, we are going to have a room full of dual-booting iMacs. While the practical likelihood is that they will mostly be booted to Windows (thus, psshutdown will still work, I hope), I won't have any control over which are in what OS state when, so I'll have to alter said batch files on the fly every night so that the correct program is attempting to run on a given station (unless someone knows of a program, preferably for Windows although it would be doable to have me log into one of said Macs to run it, that will remotely shut down either/or!).
I imagine something like this exists, I just don't know where to go looking for it. Halp plz!
1. Allow me to specify how long after the program is run the computer will shut down. I prefer being able to specify a clock time, but # of seconds is ok too. It must be manually invoked -- not something that is only capable of being pre-scheduled.
2. Be able to be run from the equivalent of a batch file (whatever that means in the Mac world -- I don't know anything about operating from the OS X command line, only a Windows one, but I can learn). Having to click something per station is not satisfactory, as I could potentially need to shut down up to 90 computers with this thing.
3. Pop up a box for the user so they can see the countdown, and allow me to configure a message in that box.
4. Not be closeable or cancelable by the average user (I don't expect protection against specialized knowledge of killing processes or whatnot).
5. Be configurable to not offer the option to save changes on any open files, i.e., to simply pull the rug out from under the user if that's what I desire.
6. A configurable timeout would be a huge bonus. The network is extremely squirrely (fur in the cables and everything; you have no idea) and I don't want to have a station be skipped just because the program didn't wait long enough, or conversely, to spend too much time trying to connect to one in the middle of a row that is already off (which Shouldn't Happen, but sometimes does anyway).
The current setup (for PCs exclusively) is that I run psshutdown.exe by executing one batch file per row of 10, which has proven to be the most practical way to do it. Right now we only have 6 Macs, which are rarely used, so I've been ignoring the very-occasional case of someone still using one at closing time. Sometime within the next year, however, we are going to have a room full of dual-booting iMacs. While the practical likelihood is that they will mostly be booted to Windows (thus, psshutdown will still work, I hope), I won't have any control over which are in what OS state when, so I'll have to alter said batch files on the fly every night so that the correct program is attempting to run on a given station (unless someone knows of a program, preferably for Windows although it would be doable to have me log into one of said Macs to run it, that will remotely shut down either/or!).
I imagine something like this exists, I just don't know where to go looking for it. Halp plz!
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Date: Jun. 28th, 2007 11:07 pm (UTC)From: