[WEB4LIB] Re: Scheduled Computer Power-ON

[Jacque King]

Another shutdown utility can be found in the NT resource kit
called shutgui.exe

Jacque King
Library Technical Support Specialist
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson Street
Fort Collins, CO  80524
(970) 221-6716
king at julip.fcgov.com


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, James Cayz wrote:

> Dale,
>
> As opposed to having daily timers that do the turn-on and turn off, have you
> looked at master control programs that can turn them on and off fairly
> quickly, but leaves the staff in control to do so, so if there is a holiday,
> or unexpect snow day, the computers don't turn on, run all day to
> a vacant building, and turn off?  (Or if you have to close early...).
>
> For wakeup, if you are all on the same LAN segment, you can use a variety
> of the Wake On Lan programs out there.  I am using a Perl script and
> a form from my Unix-based server to be able to turn any number
> (one, some, or all) of our fairly new WOL-enabled computers in the building.
> The script is "Magic Packet for the Web", posted under the
> GNU license by guenter.knauf at dialup.soco.de .  There are several incarnations
> of it floating around.
>
> As to turning them off - I was introduced to the neatest little program
> recently - psshutdown.exe - for Win 2000 and NT - at
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml .
> Logged in as administrator to any machine in the domain allows you to
> shutdown any other machine on the domain, with or without warning, etc.
> It is a command line program, so a quick batch file would make quick
> work of an entire library at closing time.
>
> I hope these suggestions help.
>
> James
>
> > Greetings:
> >
> > Has anyone developed a system for scheduling daily power-ups for their
> > Library's public computers? We would like to have a scenario where our
> > machines would be scheduled to power on automatically Monday-Friday at 7:15
> > am, Saturday at 9:45 am and Sunday at 11:45 am.  We have 75 public machines
> > to bring up each day; having such a system would be a great help for staff
> > and students opening the building.
> > We currently use Deep Freeze to schedule nightly shut-downs for the
> > equipment, and that seems to work fairly well.  We may also consider using
> > Ghost for the power-up scheme as well, as we're already using it to deploy
> > our images.  We haven't experimented with Ghost's power-up capabilities yet,
> > as we would need to coordinate this with our campus University Computing
> > Services staff.
> > We have also played with a program called PowerOFF, that has similar
> > power-up/down capabilities. The drawback with here is that it appears we can
> > only schedule a power-on for one machine.
> > What solutions have others implemented?  I have one of our student employees
> > working on this project and he has started playing with a program called
> > RSHUT Pro; anyone have experience with this?  Or has anyone successfully
> > used PowerOFF to schedule power-ups for several machines?
> > Any other recommendations would be much appreciated.
> >
> > **************************************************
> > Dale E. Goodell
> > Information Technology Consultant
> > Hamersly Library -- Western Oregon University
> > 345 N. Monmouth Avenue
> > Monmouth, OR 97361
> >
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> > E-mail:  goodeld at wou.edu
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> >
> >
>
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