The DameWare NT Utilities Shutdown View interface provides you with total management of Shutdown, Logoff and Power Off functionality of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows7 machines. Shutdown can be initiated from one client machine via Batch Processing to any machine available in the Network Browser. The upper area of the view provides a real time status of the system, logged on user(s) and any applications that are running on the machine. The lower portion of the Shutdown view displays the machines included in Batch Processing. This lower portion of the Shutdown view works like a queue manager of the target machines. Machines can be added to the Batch Processing using drag and drop from the Network Browser. The machines added to the Batch Processing are saved so that each time you load the Shutdown view the machines will be listed. You can abort Batch Processing shutdowns any time during the process and any shutdowns not yet executed will be cancelled. DameWare NT Utilities makes use of many different icons to help provide visual feedback to the user as to the status of Batch Processing on both local and remote machines.
Each of the columns contained in the lower portion of the Shutdown view, support column sorting and column ordering. The lower portion of the Schedule view lists the Machine, Action, Status, Machine Type and Error columns. The Error column will show the error code and error descriptions when an error condition has occurred.
The following options are available from the mini-toolbar located at the bottom of the Shutdown view.
Shutdown Opens the System Shutdown dialog window for the selected machine. Many configurable options are available including Force Application Termination, Reboot after Shutdown, Time to Shutdown Countdown and Message Text (127 characters maximum)
Logoff Opens the User Logoff dialog window for the selected machine. Many configurable options are available including Force Application Termination, Allow User to Abort, Time to Logoff Countdown and Message Text (255 characters maximum).
Power Off Opens the Power Off dialog window for the selected machine. Many configurable options are available including Force Application Termination, Allow User to Abort, Time to Power Off Countdown and Message Text (255 characters maximum).
Batch Processing When selected, displays the Batch Logoff/Power Off/Shutdown dialog window. The total number of selected machines included in this Batch is displayed at the top of the window. The options including Force Application Termination, Allow User to Abort, Time to Countdown and Message Text can be specified. Once a Batch Logoff/Power Off/Shutdown has been submitted, the machine icons (Shutdown, Logoff and Power Off) of the machines in the list will change according to the status of the Batch process submitted to the individual machine(s). Note: See the table below for an explanation of the icon status.
Shutdown Properties Displays the property sheet where the Back Color and Font can be configured.
Stops the current view action.
Abort the current Batch process When selected, will cancel the Batch process to any machine(s) that has/have not already completed the request.
The following status codes and descriptions are available from within the lower pane of the Shutdown view.
Shutdown None No Shutdowns have been performed.
Complete Okay status
Error The Batch Shutdown failed. Refer to the Error field displayed in the lower portion of the Shutdown view window.
Pending The Batch Shutdown is in the queue to be scheduled on this machine.
Active The Batch Shutdown is in progress on this machine.
Logoff None No Logoffs have been performed.
Complete Okay status
Error The Batch Logoff failed. Refer to the Error field displayed in the lower portion of the Shutdown view window.
Pending The Batch Logoff is in the queue to be scheduled on this machine.
Active The Batch Logoff is in progress on this machine.
Power off None No Power Offs have been performed.
Complete Okay status
Error The Batch Power Off failed. Refer to the Error field displayed in the lower portion of the Shutdown view window.
Pending The Batch Power Off is in the queue to be scheduled on this machine.
Active The Batch Power Off is in progress on this machine.
The DameWare NT Utilities Shutdown view presents separate tabbed dialog windows for each of the Shutdown Batch options. The Shutdown, Logoff and Power Off Batch options have several configurable properties that can be selected, including:
Reboot after Shutdown Valid only for the Shutdown option. It instructs the routine whether to reboot the target machine after the shutdown command is executed.
Force Application Termination Valid for all options. When selected specifies whether to force applications running on the target machine(s) to be closed before the shutdown of the target machine.
Time to Shutdown Countdown Valid for all options. Specifies the delay in seconds before the Batch process is actually initiated.
Allow User to Abort Valid for Logoff and Power Off options only. Will present a dialog box on the target machine where the user can Abort the process.
Install Service if not Installed Valid for Logoff and Power Off options only. Dynamically installs the DameWare NT Utilities service on the target machine allowing the process to be completed.
Message Text Valid for all options. The message text is presented in a dialog window to the target machine(s). The maximum number of characters allowed is 117 for Shutdown and 255 for Logoff and Power Off.
Notes:
Logoff When the machine specified to receive the Logoff command is running the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows7 Active Desktop, the Logoff will close the desktop but may not close the user connections.
Power Off When the machine specified to receive the Power Off command does not support Power Off features, a reboot will result. The Power Off feature is only supported on hardware that supports auto-power off. As a general rule, if the machine does not power down automatically when you ’r;Shut Down’ the computer manually, this option will not work. Test this option before relying on its’ behavior as it is very dependent on the hardware. (Generally, if the hardware does not support it, the machine will reboot instead of powering down.)
The DameWare NT Utilities Shutdown window view uses Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows7 security for authentication to the target machine to shut down and will allow the time (in seconds) of delay to be specified before the event is fired.
The DameWare NT Utilities Shutdown process will not successfully execute against Windows 9x clients.