[hobbit] windows question

[Ben]

I'd use the  uptime service check/alert for hosts to notify admins.
Alsom if these Win32 boxes are in an AD environment where you've got
Domain Admin rights (or an account with this right) then just create a
scheduled task on one box and copy/paste it into the Scheduled tasks
shares on the other boxes (see link below). If you have just a local
admin account on each system then you can use this to push out a
scheduled task to boxes (takes longer to re-make the scheduled task
for each host assuming unique password ;-).

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/05/10/remote_tasks.html?page=last&x-maxdepth=0

Ben

On Feb 18, 2008 4:42 PM, Shea, Graeme A
<Shea.Graeme.A at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ========================================================================
> ===
>
>
> 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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