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

I had trouble with this also. WMI can be misleading with methods for classes and object. My solution is for rebooting a host on the network with C# and WMI, but is easily simplified for local machine:

private void rebootHost(string hostName)
{
    string adsiPath = string.Format(@"\\{0}\root\cimv2", hostName);
    ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(adsiPath);
    // I've seen this, but I found not necessary:
    // scope.Options.EnablePrivileges = true;
    ManagementPath osPath = new ManagementPath("Win32_OperatingSystem");
    ManagementClass os = new ManagementClass(scope, osPath, null);

    ManagementObjectCollection instances;
    try
    {
        instances = os.GetInstances();
    }
    catch (UnauthorizedAccessException exception)
    {
        throw new MyException("Not permitted to reboot the host: " + hostName, exception);
    }
    catch (COMException exception)
    {
        if (exception.ErrorCode == -2147023174)
        {
            throw new MyException("Could not reach the target host: " + hostName, exception);
        }
        throw; // Unhandled
    }
    foreach (ManagementObject instance in instances)
    {
        object result = instance.InvokeMethod("Reboot", new object[] { });
        uint returnValue = (uint)result;

        if (returnValue != 0)
        {
            throw new MyException("Failed to reboot host: " + hostName);
        }
    }
}