psexec

[ben chi(f4)]

Hello all!

I have a question for your experts.

I have 25 Windows XP SP2 running on my ESX server (all of them are on and running). I need to be able to psexecute a command in cmdprompt let's say:

c:\directory>run this command

then I need to be able to kill that process all at once on all 25 machines. Would I be able to do something like this in psexecute?

 

[XOR != OR]

All at once? Probably not, but you will be able to execute all the commands and then kill the processes. Timing will just be off.

 

[ben chi(f4)]

That's fine.

How would I do that? Would I have to write a .bat file? Or... I'm lost.

 

[k1pp3r]

Check out the front end GUI interface for PSTOOLS

http://http://www.dadsproject.com/FePsTools/fepstools.htm

You can either put the command in there and choose "do not wait" so that the process is started and psexec moves to the next computer,

Create a txt file with your computer names and GO

 

[ben chi(f4)]

Very nice! Thank you. I was able to the same process on multiple machines but I wasn't able to start the process with arguments.

Now, in the Program box... do I type the path of the program of the box I'm using PSEXEC on?

so

psexec.exe \\ipaddressofbox -u -p c:\path to process.exe "argumentsforprocess"

 

[k1pp3r]

There is a seperate box for arguments, just under the program box

 

[ben chi(f4)]

Yeah tried that, no dice. =[ Any suggestions? I'll keep tinkering to see what happens. Does the program box indicate it's pointing to the process on the machine I'm remoting to?

 

[k1pp3r]

it refers to a program on the PC running PSEXEC, so put your cmd in a .bat file and run it that way

 

[REDYOUCH]

Create a batch file with a for loop. You can use taskkill to kill the application.