[hobbit] windows question

[Allan Spencer]

Rebecca Henderson wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
>
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> -----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
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> 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
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> Is it possible to schedule a windows reboot command through hobbit? See
> below
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> C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe/r/f
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> 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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It all depends how fast the box reboots as to if they will work. Given 
its windows are you using either the BB client or the BBWin client ? If 
so then these would turn the cpu yellow on a reboot so you may be able 
to trigger an alert that way although this depends on your other cpu 
usage warning settings as well.

Just a though HIH

Allan