Guest Cindy B Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 Hi- Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a weekly reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled tasks. My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd like to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't always have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or unplanned. OR.. when I run: c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 can I designate planned instead of unplanned? thanks for any suggeston you might have? Cindy -- Cindy B
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 Re: scheduled reboot - assign reason? "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message news:CB593B6D-3BE6-4720-A9D7-FD17C3BA0AE4@microsoft.com... > Hi- > Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a > weekly > reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled > tasks. > My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd > like > to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't > always > have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or > unplanned. > OR.. when I run: > c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 > can I designate planned instead of unplanned? > thanks for any suggeston you might have? > Cindy > -- > Cindy B We don't know which server version you run but I note that the WinXP version of shutdown.exe has a switch for the shutdown code.
Guest Harry Bates Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 Re: scheduled reboot - assign reason? Cindy, Run Shutdown /? for all of the command switches for shutdown.exe. "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message news:CB593B6D-3BE6-4720-A9D7-FD17C3BA0AE4@microsoft.com... > Hi- > Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a > weekly > reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled > tasks. > My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd > like > to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't > always > have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or > unplanned. > OR.. when I run: > c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 > can I designate planned instead of unplanned? > thanks for any suggeston you might have? > Cindy > -- > Cindy B
Guest Cindy B Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 RE: scheduled reboot - assign reason? Sorry - more info ... Using server 2003 R2 using shutdown /r /f /t 01 - it works fine... using shutdown /? - I found the /d command - but cannot get it to work.. it says: /d [p:]xx:yy I interupt that as - /d [p:]04:01 (for my needs) - added to my line above... it doesn't work - just returns me to the prompt.... I have played around with it a little, but once I add that - I can't get it to reboot????? Should I be doing something different with those sq brackets? thanks again for your help! -- Cindy B "Cindy B" wrote: > Hi- > Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a weekly > reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled tasks. > My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd like > to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't always > have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or > unplanned. > OR.. when I run: > c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 > can I designate planned instead of unplanned? > thanks for any suggeston you might have? > Cindy > -- > Cindy B
Guest Harry Bates Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 Re: scheduled reboot - assign reason? You are just having a syntax error. You would want to invoke it like this: shutdown -r -f -d p:4:1 This will throw an event in the event log that the shutdown was due to Application Maintenance and it was planned. You can also use the "-c" switch to put a custom message in the even log. Harry Bates Lockheed Martin "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message news:6277B8D9-3983-452F-BE6E-F1CE7B508A7E@microsoft.com... > Sorry - more info ... Using server 2003 R2 > > using shutdown /r /f /t 01 - it works fine... > > using shutdown /? - I found the /d command - but cannot get it to work.. > it says: /d [p:]xx:yy > > I interupt that as - /d [p:]04:01 (for my needs) - added to my line > above... > it doesn't work - just returns me to the prompt.... I have played around > with it a little, but once I add that - I can't get it to reboot????? > Should I be doing something different with those sq brackets? > > thanks again for your help! > -- > Cindy B > > > "Cindy B" wrote: > >> Hi- >> Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a >> weekly >> reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled >> tasks. >> My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd >> like >> to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't >> always >> have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or >> unplanned. >> OR.. when I run: >> c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 >> can I designate planned instead of unplanned? >> thanks for any suggeston you might have? >> Cindy >> -- >> Cindy B
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 Re: scheduled reboot - assign reason? It takes a little patience and some trial and error to work out the correct syntax for this command. Here is an example: shutdown -r -t 2000 -d :12:45 "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message news:6277B8D9-3983-452F-BE6E-F1CE7B508A7E@microsoft.com... > Sorry - more info ... Using server 2003 R2 > > using shutdown /r /f /t 01 - it works fine... > > using shutdown /? - I found the /d command - but cannot get it to work.. > it says: /d [p:]xx:yy > > I interupt that as - /d [p:]04:01 (for my needs) - added to my line > above... > it doesn't work - just returns me to the prompt.... I have played around > with it a little, but once I add that - I can't get it to reboot????? > Should I be doing something different with those sq brackets? > > thanks again for your help! > -- > Cindy B > > > "Cindy B" wrote: > >> Hi- >> Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a >> weekly >> reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled >> tasks. >> My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd >> like >> to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't >> always >> have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or >> unplanned. >> OR.. when I run: >> c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 >> can I designate planned instead of unplanned? >> thanks for any suggeston you might have? >> Cindy >> -- >> Cindy B
Guest Cindy B Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 RE: scheduled reboot - assign reason? THANKs!!!! - You both sent me the right info... works great! Guess I should have kept plugging away at it - anyhow, thanks so much for your help and your time!!!! -- Cindy B "Cindy B" wrote: > Sorry - more info ... Using server 2003 R2 > > using shutdown /r /f /t 01 - it works fine... > > using shutdown /? - I found the /d command - but cannot get it to work.. > it says: /d [p:]xx:yy > > I interupt that as - /d [p:]04:01 (for my needs) - added to my line above... > it doesn't work - just returns me to the prompt.... I have played around > with it a little, but once I add that - I can't get it to reboot????? > Should I be doing something different with those sq brackets? > > thanks again for your help! > -- > Cindy B > > > "Cindy B" wrote: > > > Hi- > > Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a weekly > > reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled tasks. > > My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd like > > to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't always > > have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or > > unplanned. > > OR.. when I run: > > c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 > > can I designate planned instead of unplanned? > > thanks for any suggeston you might have? > > Cindy > > -- > > Cindy B
Guest Jos Munnik Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Re: scheduled reboot - assign reason? Hi Cindy, An easy way to perform this task is to create a vbs/cmd/cmdlet. See example http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/ezine/ezine45.htm edit this script so that it matches your requirements. And create a scheduled task and select this script. Kind Regards, JosM "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message news:CB593B6D-3BE6-4720-A9D7-FD17C3BA0AE4@microsoft.com... > Hi- > Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a > weekly > reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled > tasks. > My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd > like > to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't > always > have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or > unplanned. > OR.. when I run: > c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 > can I designate planned instead of unplanned? > thanks for any suggeston you might have? > Cindy > -- > Cindy B
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