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 <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: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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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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Hi all,

I have a problem with my Hobbit server that I cant make any sense of. The main Hobbit page (bb.html) will only update every 15 mins. The pages for each test (when I click on the coloured dots) seem to update ok it's just the main page that (say) maintains a red dot long after the test itself has turned green. I'm using by the time displayed in the upper right corner of the main page to determine what the refresh interval is.

The bbdisplay section from the hobbitlaunch.cfg file is

[bbdisplay] ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd GROUP generators CMD bbgen $BBGENOPTS --report LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log INTERVAL 1m

I've tried changing the interval but it seems to have no effect. I'm using ver 4.2 running on Ubuntu 7.1. All running in a VMWare Virtual Server.

Anyone got any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

Graeme

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