[hobbit] windows question

[Shea, Graeme A]

The way I think I would do it is to run a task (script) each night on
one windows server that reboots all the servers and have it use the
bbwin externals facility to read a log file generated by that script and
report back to hobbit. I have very extensive monitoring on all my
windows servers but most of them are scripts that report back using the
original BB BTF client and my server count is low enough that I can do
each server independently. 

If you run a scheduled task on each server independently you could get
the output of the script to tell you that it did restart and get a green
dot for each server. The bbwin client will run a script for you
periodically but not at specific times (case for feature request?). To
not have any scheduled tasks you could get bbwin to run the script at
the default interval and have the script check the time and reboot at
the correct time (yuk). Creating tasks on windows remotely is difficult.


All these are not quite what is wanted and not anywhere as neat as the
System Management solutions.

Hope this helps

Regards
Graeme


-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Jim [mailto:JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 8:58 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] windows question

Thanks, Greg.  I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one thinking that
way!  <grin>

Jim Smith


-----Original Message-----
From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:52 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] windows question

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:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:43 PM
To: 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: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:32 PM
To: Rebecca Henderson; 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:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:27 PM
To: 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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