How to on and shutdown a server using wcf in c# ?

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Hi ,

I need to on the server system and then need to sht down the server system.

I tried shutdown -s -f -m \\192.168.11.99,shutdown -s -f -t 00 -m \\192.168.11.99
but it does not work. can any one suggest me the correct answer?

Posted 2-Sep-13 23:52pm

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 1 · 2013-09-03T00:02:00

Your original post has nothing to do with WCF, even less with C# or programming. You can shutdown a machine remotely only if you are admin on the remote server, and you impersonate that admin user, the RPC service is running, and there is no firewall hindering you.

If you want to do this from code, you could use WMI for example (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394591(v=vs.85).aspx[^])

VB

strComputer = "atl-dc-01"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\" & _
        strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
    ObjOperatingSystem.Shutdown(1)
Next

This is quite easy to transcribe in c#. Check here for examples: http://www.dlssoftwarestudios.com/simple-wmi-with-c/[^]

Of course, you could expose a WCF service for this purpose, but I don't think it's worth trying.

Switching it on is a little bit different task, and depends on the hardware manufacturer. With HP for example you can use the iLO, but it is not so simple to use the API.