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Web UIs are nicer to deal with for simpler tasks. You can use this on your phone easily. Less technical users can be instructed on how to perform simple tasks like remotely powering off a machine.

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Is the overhead of such tools, and added attack surface, justified over sshing and issuing a shutdown command though?

You can just run it via ssh anyway....

What kind of attack are you anticipating? Surely only a fool or a madman would make such a thing publicly accessible.

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