Shutdown and Startup of Multiple Servers?

[Guest ICT User]

Occassionaly I have to shutdown around 40-50 servers then start them

back up later in the day. I have found a program (remoteshutdown)

that will shutdown multiple servers but im not sure how good it will

be in our environment. A couple of questions - what is everyone else

using and is there any software out there that could start servers in

a sequence - for example could it start our domain controllers first

then other servers after - im assuming it would need to be wake on lan

software with some sort of checking script? I image large

organisations must have something like this though i suspect they have

greater redundancy/ups/generators than we currently have and may never

need to shutdown everything...

 

Thanks in advance

 

ICTUser

[Guest BHarley99]

Re: Shutdown and Startup of Multiple Servers?

 

You can write scripts using resource kit shutdown tool. Then there are a lot

of tools out there you can use, plus some professional tools that can

coordinate your restarts.

 

However - I have kept a practive of avoiding this and fixing any root causes

that require reboots.

 

Can I ask why you are rebooting so frequently? Normally, servers do not need

any rebooting if they are built, sized correctly and protected

appropriately.

 

 

 

 

"ICT User" <ictuser2002@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Occassionaly I have to shutdown around 40-50 servers then start them

> back up later in the day. I have found a program (remoteshutdown)

> that will shutdown multiple servers but im not sure how good it will

> be in our environment. A couple of questions - what is everyone else

> using and is there any software out there that could start servers in

> a sequence - for example could it start our domain controllers first

> then other servers after - im assuming it would need to be wake on lan

> software with some sort of checking script? I image large

> organisations must have something like this though i suspect they have

> greater redundancy/ups/generators than we currently have and may never

> need to shutdown everything...

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> ICTUser

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Shutdown and Startup of Multiple Servers?

 

 

"ICT User" <ictuser2002@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Occassionaly I have to shutdown around 40-50 servers then start them

> back up later in the day. I have found a program (remoteshutdown)

> that will shutdown multiple servers but im not sure how good it will

> be in our environment. A couple of questions - what is everyone else

> using and is there any software out there that could start servers in

> a sequence - for example could it start our domain controllers first

> then other servers after - im assuming it would need to be wake on lan

> software with some sort of checking script? I image large

> organisations must have something like this though i suspect they have

> greater redundancy/ups/generators than we currently have and may never

> need to shutdown everything...

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> ICTUser

>

 

I won't comment on the desireability or otherwise of rebooting

your servers - BHarley covered this angle very competently.

About the mechanics of restarting 50 servers, you could run

this batch file:

 

@echo off

for /F %%a in (c:\Group1.txt) do echo shutdown -r -m %%a -t 60 -f

for /F %%a in (c:\Group2.txt) do echo shutdown -r -m %%a -t 300 -f

for /F %%a in (c:\Group3.txt) do echo shutdown -r -m %%a -t 900 -f

 

The file Group1.txt contains a list of the servers that are to be

rebooted almost immediately.

 

The file Group2.txt contains a list of the servers that are to be

rebooted five minutes later when the Group1 machines are

up and running again.

 

Group3 comes later again.

 

You could add a command between the groups that tests

whether servers from the previous group are up again.

 

Remove the word "echo" to activate the batch file.

[Guest ICT User]

Re: Shutdown and Startup of Multiple Servers?

 

The reason I need to shut them all down is because we are having our

offices "rebuilt" so occasionally the power has to be shutdown for the

whole of the weekend and we dont have the facility to run our servers

for that long without power.

 

Thanks for your replies.

 

ICTUser

 

 

 

On 1 Oct, 20:23, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote:

> "ICT User" <ictuser2...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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> > Occassionaly I have to shutdown around 40-50 servers then start them

> > back up later in the day. I have found a program (remoteshutdown)

> > that will shutdown multiple servers but im not sure how good it will

> > be in our environment. A couple of questions - what is everyone else

> > using and is there any software out there that could start servers in

> > a sequence - for example could it start our domain controllers first

> > then other servers after - im assuming it would need to be wake on lan

> > software with some sort of checking script? I image large

> > organisations must have something like this though i suspect they have

> > greater redundancy/ups/generators than we currently have and may never

> > need to shutdown everything...

>

> > Thanks in advance

>

> > ICTUser

>

> I won't comment on the desireability or otherwise of rebooting

> your servers - BHarley covered this angle very competently.

> About the mechanics of restarting 50 servers, you could run

> this batch file:

>

> @echo off

> for /F %%a in (c:\Group1.txt) do echo shutdown -r -m %%a -t 60 -f

> for /F %%a in (c:\Group2.txt) do echo shutdown -r -m %%a -t 300 -f

> for /F %%a in (c:\Group3.txt) do echo shutdown -r -m %%a -t 900 -f

>

> The file Group1.txt contains a list of the servers that are to be

> rebooted almost immediately.

>

> The file Group2.txt contains a list of the servers that are to be

> rebooted five minutes later when the Group1 machines are

> up and running again.

>

> Group3 comes later again.

>

> You could add a command between the groups that tests

> whether servers from the previous group are up again.

>

> Remove the word "echo" to activate the batch file.- Hide quoted text -

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