Best way to shutdown several remote windows 2003 server from 1 ser

I'm new to WMI programming and I have a case: Shutdown several remote servers
running Windows 2003 x32 and x64 from one server.

The condition are:
1. Servers cannot be shutdown simultaneously - must be shutdown in order.
ex. Specific services on Server A must be stopped first, then when
services are stopped the Server A is shutdown. After server A is shutdown,
then Server B can be shutdown.

I already thought about old fashion way, which is: writing vbscript that
shutdown server A (using command line "shutdown -f -t, etc") and looping
while pinging its IP address, when the feedback is "request time out" then I
continue shutting down server B.
But I'm not sure if this is the best scenario, cause I cannot detect the
services state and I think this scenario is vulnerable.

Thank you for solution in advance.

Regards,

David

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