Powering Machines Down

Phil,

That is a great idea! And never thought of doing that, but to fix your problem, 

In the condition "Computer Off" Instead of nothing in the task list, add a Run Script and just type "REM Already Off" in the script window and on the next pane change the script to run locally on the server and untick "Run when agent connect".

This will do everything on the server, and will never try and wake the agent, because it doesn't need to.

I'm going to do some more testing and let you know, but maybe reforming this so as to have the status window show if it was "already on" or "already off" or any other options.

Josh

Phil, I've done some more testing, and got this nailed.

Using your idea for "Computer On" and adding a shutdown power procedure to the condition.

Then adding another Condition called "Computer Off" under this condition add the user defined conditions as you did for both 0 and 41. Then in the task pane add "Run Script".

In the first pane of the wizard, type in:

REM Computer Already Shutdown
EXIT 1

This will give the label to Altiris of Computer Already Shutdown and will exit always with a code of 1, this I will explain more later.

In the next pane of the wizard, for script run location select "Locally on the Deployment Server" and untick "Run when agent is connected"

In the last pane of the wizard, add a return code of 1 (WARNING: untick add to master list!!) with the:

Response: Continue
Result: Success
Status: "Power Management task complete".

Click finish and run!

Hope this helps (it's helped me thanks!),

Josh

bwilkerson, please refer to the article I wrote about this.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/power-management-shutdown-without-headaches-aka-wakeups

Hope that helps.

Josh

Sorry didn't realise it took sometime for articles to appear, please check back on that later.

Josh

Hi Josh

Good to hear that you can add the to info i posted.

I found that code off another site.

What info did you need in the script that runs??

thanks

Phil

also, the link you posted i can access it - says i am unauthorised

Hi Phil,

Don't quite understand what you mean by your question, however what im assuming is what do need to write in the script, and the anwser to that is nothing at all, HOWEVER I put in mine

REM Computer Already Shutdown
EXIT 1

Only because then I can setup and status update in the console window using return codes.

The only other thing is to make sure you select the script to run on the sever and that the agent dosn't have to be connected for it to run.

Does that answer your question?

Also yes that article was only posted this morning and apprently it takes sometime for the articles to come up. Sorry about that.

Josh

Thats cool Josh

I need to look into the script then and run that as the 1st job.

Will let you know my findings

Thanks

Phil

Hi josh,

I have come to put the script in to the job,

I currently have the power control task, do i run the script job before the power control job?

hope that makes sense

Thanks

Phil