how to send a comand from windows machine to shutdown server truenas scale ?

[gus4b]

hello If someone can help me out, im tring to automate daily routines, how can i create a .bat file in wondows 10 to send a shutdown comand to my truenas scale ?

thanks,

best,

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

A powershell script can do that. With SSH client builtin to Windows 10 and 11 you can do something like ssh root@1.2.3.4 shutdown -P now. Look into Windows SSH client and public/private key authentication.

 

[gus4b]

A powershell script can do that. With SSH client builtin to Windows 10 and 11 you can do something like ssh root@1.2.3.4 shutdown -P now. Look into Windows SSH client and public/private key authentication.

thanks for the advice, i tried to connect with the comand: ssh "user name"@"ip adress" and gave the following response ssh connect to host "ip adress" connection refused and in the second ip adress connection timed out...

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You need to enable the SSH service, configure it to permit root login, generate a private/public key pair and put the public key into the root user on TrueNAS keeping the private key on your Windows system.

When I wrote "look into" I meant you will have some reading to do. I don't use Windows, so ...