WMI to reboot remote machine

Question

I found this code on an old thread to shutdown the local machine:

using System.Management;

void Shutdown()
{
    ManagementBaseObject mboShutdown = null;
           


        

Answer 1

To address WMI queries to a remote computer, you simply specify that computer's name (or IP address) in the ManagementScope object.

I'm not well up in C#, but here's an example I came up with using MSDN and WMI Code Creator (which is, by the way, an excellent tool for generating WMI code, and supports C# among others). Hope this code will give you the idea.

(Disclaimer: This code is untested.)

using System;
using System.Management;
...

void Shutdown()
{
    try
    {
        const string computerName = "COMPUTER"; // computer name or IP address

        ConnectionOptions options = new ConnectionOptions();
        options.EnablePrivileges = true;
        // To connect to the remote computer using a different account, specify these values:
        // options.Username = "USERNAME";
        // options.Password = "PASSWORD";
        // options.Authority = "ntlmdomain:DOMAIN";

        ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(
          "\\\\" + computerName +  "\\root\\CIMV2", options);
        scope.Connect();

        SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("Win32_OperatingSystem");
        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = 
            new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query);

        foreach (ManagementObject os in searcher.Get())
        {
            // Obtain in-parameters for the method
            ManagementBaseObject inParams = 
                os.GetMethodParameters("Win32Shutdown");

            // Add the input parameters.
            inParams["Flags"] =  2;

            // Execute the method and obtain the return values.
            ManagementBaseObject outParams = 
                os.InvokeMethod("Win32Shutdown", inParams, null);
        }
    }
    catch(ManagementException err)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("An error occurred while trying to execute the WMI method: " + err.Message);
    }
    catch(System.UnauthorizedAccessException unauthorizedErr)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Connection error (user name or password might be incorrect): " + unauthorizedErr.Message);
    }
}