System action

Seven System Actions are available:

• Shutdown
  Using this System Action, all Target Computers will be physically powered off after having stopped correctly the operating system.

• Reboot
  Shutdown and restart all Target Computers.

• Logoff session
  Close the user session on all Target Computers if a user is logged in.

• Lock session
  This System Action locks remote computers if a user is logged in.

• Wake up
  This System Action allows you to wake up remote computers using the Wake-On-Lan technology. The MAC address and the subnet of all remote computers to wake up should have been scanned first. RemoteExec automatically scans for MAC addresses and subnets at each start-up. You can launch or schedule the scan of MAC addresses during working hours with the Get wake up info Action (see after). You can also check all already scanned MAC addresses or add manually MAC addresses and subnets in the RemoteExec Options.
  
  RemoteExec can only automatically scan MAC addresses for Windows computers with the NetBIOS protocol enabled. If you want to wake up other computers you should add their MAC addresses and subnet manually.
  
  By default the Wake-On-Lan is disabled in the BIOS of each computer. You should enable this option located in power settings: Resume on PME or Wake on PCI PME, … depending on the BIOS manufacturer.
  
  If you try to wake up computers in another subnet, directed broadcasts need to be allowed on all routers between both subnets for UDP packets using the port 7.

• Abort System Action
  If needed, you can abort any Reboot, Shutdown, or Logoff during the notification period.

• Get wake up info
  Allows you to retrieve the MAC address and the subnet of target computers in order to be able to use the wake up feature later for these machines.

Force applications to close

Selecting this option exits all applications and closes all currently opened documents in the user session without saving possibilities. If you don't select this option, an unsaved document can block the user logoff as the computer shutdown.

Reboot only if needed

This option is available when a Reboot Action is selected. RemoteExec will check on each computer if file updates are scheduled on the next computer restart and will execute it only in this case.

Execution mode

Immediate execution
The System Action is immediately executed.

Immediate execution if possible, notify otherwise
The System Action is immediately executed on workstations without logged on user.
The notification is displayed first :
- on workstation with a user logged on.
- on servers.

Always notify before executing
The notification is always displayed before starting the execution.
 

Notify mode

Execute after notifying during
The System Action execution will start only after displaying the notification during the specified number of minutes. The user can hide this notification but it will pop again after a while.

Indefinitely notify each
The notification is displayed indefinitely and ends only when the user initiate the System Action by himself. If the user hides the notification, it will pop again after the specified number of minutes chosen.
 

Wait the end of the execution during / Don't wait the end of the execution

If needed, RemoteExec can wait the end of the System Action execution during a specified time. This feature is useful if you need to wake up first a computer before executing Jobs (Multiple actions mode). RemoteExec will first wait that the computers answer to a ping before trying to execute remaining Actions. This feature is also useful if a reboot is needed between two Actions: RemoteExec can wait the end of a reboot before trying to execute the next Action.

Notification message
You can customize here the Notification message displayed to users on the remote computer.