[hobbit] windows question

Rebecca Henderson rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com
Mon Feb 18 23:04:14 CET 2008


I'm not the windows admin. I'm UNIX, Linux...
I'm just trying to put hobbit in place here.
I think you are right about that. 
The "no response to ping" will be emailed to the operations group
>From my hobbit server. 
That should be good enough.
Thanks again!

-----Original Message-----
From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:56 PM
To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] windows question
Importance: Low

If you're really gung ho about rebooting your Windows boxes every night
use the machines themselves to issue the command at each night midnight
(or whatever time).

Josh

On 2/18/08, Hubbard, Greg L <[ mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com
]greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:

Becki,

Hobbit was developed under the "monitor and inform, but do nothing else"
school of thought.  It cannot schedule a reboot.  However, you might be
able to build something that would reboot a remote system and link it to
the alert system if you think that is wise.  What you would do is have
the alert system run a custom script, and that custom script can do
anything in your power.

But, frankly, this is generally considered A Bad Idea in most circles.

GLH

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:[
mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com
]rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:43 PM
To: [ mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk ]hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] windows question

I agree with you but my situation is I'm replacing a system that does
monitor and schedule tasks so I'm trying to meet the needs of the
windows community. An example of this would be HP-Openview ... Monitor,
run tasks, email page etc.... I'm sure there is a way. Thank you for the
reply.



-----Original Message-----
From: [ mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk ]hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:[
mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk ]hobbit at hswn.dk]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:32 PM
To: Rebecca Henderson; [ mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk ]hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] windows question
Importance: Low

I don't know the answer to that question, but I don't think a monitoring
system is the proper tool to use for taking action.



Jim Smith







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From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:[
mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com
]rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:27 PM
To: [ mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk ]hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] windows question






Is it possible to schedule a windows reboot command through hobbit? See
below

C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe/r/f





I need to run this command on a few servers every night and send emails
to
operations, "email" which I finally got working J

Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Becki


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