Turning off a remote PC with LV

Question

HI,
I want to know if anyone knows if it is possible to turn off a remote PC with a LV program. We have one PC supervision that stays always on and 2 other PCs that are on the same network. The other PCs do not have KVM and we need to turn them off once in a while within our application. Right now when we want to turn them off we have to remote desktop and turn them off, not possible when the application is running.
Thanks

Answer 1

you can use the computer name in the shutdown command
C:\>shutdown
Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "c
omment"] [-d up:xx:yy]
        No args                 Display this message (same as -?)
        -i                      Display GUI interface, must be the first option
        -l                      Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
        -s                      Shutdown the computer
        -r                      Shutdown and restart the computer
        -a                      Abort a system shutdown
        -m \\computername       Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
        -t xx                   Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
        -c "comment"            Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
        -f                      Forces running applications to close without warning
        -d [u][p]:xx:yy         The reason code for the shutdown
                                u is the user code
                                p is a planned shutdown code
                                xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
                                yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)
- James
Using LV 2012 on Windows 7 64 bit