Help w/ bat file to Trigger My Cloud Shutdown upon PC Shutdown

[raygun85]

I need a little help writing a bat file that will shutdown my My Cloud 4th Personal Cloud NAS device when the PC is shutdown. I have a battery backup that will autoshutdown the PC when the power goes out. I need the NAS also to shutdown when the power goes out. This is for a small office in which I am not present for 12-16 hours a day. Somebody that knows how to write a bat file, please help.

Before anyone asks:

— I have searched the forums and found similar issues but not enough to accomplish my task.
— Budgetary challenges prevent me from buying a battery backup or another NAS.
— I am running Windows 10 64-bit, Intel Core i7 2.8GHz, 16GB Ram.

Again, I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me write this thing. I know enough to be dangerous.

Thanks!

[rac8006]

Safe shutdown

On single bay My Cloud units running v04.04.01-112 firmware there is an option to shut down the unit via the Dashboard > Settings > Utilities > Device Maintenance > Shutdown. Check to see if there is a similar option with the v2.x firmware. With the first gen My Cloud units one can also use SSH to issue a shutdown or reboot command. I assume something similar can be done with the second gen units running v2.x firmware. One can use Plink.exe, a part of the Putty program, to send the command. Pli…

Check out this link. I found it using a search plink shutdown. You should be able to run plink from a bat file.

[raygun85]

I saw that when doing a search. I guess I’m a bit uneducated on this subject. What are Putty and Plink?

[Bennor]

@raygun85

What are Putty and Plink?

You can download the programs here:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

The programs are used to access or issue SSH commands. Putty is the SSH and Telnet client itself. And Plink is a command-line interface to the PuTTY back end.

[raygun85]

Ok, so once I download and install Putty and Plink, I just need to create a.bat file using the command line above and that should do it, right? And change the IP address, obviously.

[Bennor]

YOu do not “install” putty or plink rather just unzip the files into a folder on your computer. Then create the BAT file and either put it in the same folder as putty/plink or modify the code in the BAT file to point to the directory containing Putty/Plink. Edit the IP address in the example previously mentioned so it matches YOUR My cloud IP address. Same goes for the password (pw). Change it to match your SSH password.