Execute a batch file on a remote PC using a batch

Question

I want to execute a batch file

D:\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\apache-tomcat-7.0.30\bin\shutdown.bat

Which is on my server inidsoasrv01.

How should I write my .bat file?

Answer 1

You can use WMIC or SCHTASKS (which means no third party software is needed):

1) SCHTASKS:

SCHTASKS /s remote_machine /U username /P password /create /tn "On demand demo" /tr "C:\some.bat" /sc ONCE /sd 01/01/1910 /st 00:00
SCHTASKS /s remote_machine /U username /P password /run /TN "On demand demo" 

2) WMIC (wmic will return the pid of the started process)

WMIC /NODE:"remote_machine" /user user /password password process call create "c:\some.bat","c:\exec_dir"

Answer 2

If you are in same WORKGROUP shutdown.exe /s /m \\<target-computer-name> should be enough shutdown /? for more, otherwise you need software to connect and control the target server.

UPDATE:

Seems shutdown.bat here is for shutting down apache-tomcat.

So, you might be interested to psexec or PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client

As native solution could be wmic

Example:

wmic /node:<target-computer-name> process call create "cmd.exe c:\\somefolder\\batch.bat"

In your example should be:

wmic /node:inidsoasrv01 process call create ^
    "cmd.exe D:\\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\\apache-tomcat-7.0.30\\bin\\shutdown.bat"

wmic /? and wmic /node /? for more

Answer 3

Use microsoft's tool for remote commands executions: PsExec

If there isn't your bat-file on remote host, copy it first. For example:

copy D:\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\apache-tomcat-7.0.30\bin\shutdown.bat \\RemoteServerNameOrIP\d$\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\apache-tomcat-7.0.30\bin\

And then execute:

psexec \\RemoteServerNameOrIP d:\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\apache-tomcat-7.0.30\bin\shutdown.bat

Note: filepath for psexec is path to file on remote server, not your local.

Answer 4

While I would recommend against this.

But you can use shutdown as client if the target machine has remote shutdown enabled and is in the same workgroup.

Example:

shutdown.exe /s /m \\<target-computer-name> /t 00

replacing <target-computer-name> with the URI for the target machine,

Otherwise, if you want to trigger this through Apache, you'll need to configure the batch script as a CGI script by putting AddHandler cgi-script .bat and Options +ExecCGI into either a local .htaccess file or in the main configuration for your Apache install.

Then you can just call the .bat file containing the shutdown.exe command from your browser.