Remote PC Startup

[Scott]

Is there a way to start a pc remotely from a command line?

 

[Ray at]

Do you have the Windows 2000 Resource Kit? If not, please go purchase it at
once. There is a shutdown manager, which is a GUI thing, and also a restart
script for command line usage. There's also the shutdown utility in the
system32 directory in XP Pro that can be used solely from the command line.

Ray at work

 

[Ray at]

Sorry, I misread your question. You want to start a machine that is off.
If the machine support WOL (wake on LAN), yes. What application you use to
actually perform the wakeup, I don't know. I know you can use something
like SMS to wake a machine that is off, but I'm sure there is a simpler
solution than that.

Ray at work

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Is there a way to start a pc remotely from a command line?

Hi

See "Wake on Lan Command Line" here for the free wolcmd.exe:

http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/

 

[Axel Rivera [MSFT]]

There are third party solutions available for what you're looking for.
Although I cannot personally recommend this product and there are probably
additional solutions available,
you may want to check out the following site:

http://www.1e.com

SMSWakeUp for SMS 2.0 provides the ability to 'Wake up' any appropriately
configured machines in order to install software on them or to troubleshoot
problems.

SMSWakeUp integrates with SMS 2.0 to provide administrators with an easy
method of booting PC's that have been powered down into 'low power' or
'sleep' mode. When a PC is
operating in this mode, the system power supply consumes very little power.
Only the network adapter still receives enough power via a cable that is
connected to the motherboard. This
enables the network adapter to listen out for a specific type of packet that
when received, will instruct the network adapter to restore the power supply
to full power, which will result in
a full boot of the PC.

The main use for this within SMS is to enable distribution of software to
large numbers of machines that have been powered off overnight by
intercepting software advertisements.

Using SMSWakeUp you can instruct the machines to boot, install the software
and then, using SMS 2.0, power down again.


SMSWakeUp uses Magic Packet (TM) technology, which was developed by AMD and
is now implemented by most major network card vendors.


Now: If what you are looking for is to restart the computer remotely, you
can use a VBScript:

You can copy the restart.vbs to the destination computer and use AT from
command line to force the restart.

Example: at \\computername TIME /interactive
"\\RemoteComputername\C$\restart.vbs"


VBS Example:

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
objOperatingSystem.Reboot()
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