Auto Reboots of servers?

[SPiderman]

Hi,
Can someone tell me what the best solution is to schedule reboots of windows
2000/2003 servers that is inexpensive or free?
We have some systems that hang at reboot or take a while to reboot.

Thanks

 

[cbass]

I have a scheduled task created on each server that will reboot it in the
middle of the night. It's free and has worked well for the last year or so.
Here is what I have in the run command of the scheduled task:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 25

"SPiderman" wrote:

> Hi,
> Can someone tell me what the best solution is to schedule reboots of windows
> 2000/2003 servers that is inexpensive or free?
> We have some systems that hang at reboot or take a while to reboot.
>
> Thanks

 

[SPiderman]

Hi,
Does this work on 2000 servers?

"cbass" wrote:

> I have a scheduled task created on each server that will reboot it in the
> middle of the night. It's free and has worked well for the last year or so.
> Here is what I have in the run command of the scheduled task:
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 25
>
> "SPiderman" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Can someone tell me what the best solution is to schedule reboots of windows
> > 2000/2003 servers that is inexpensive or free?
> > We have some systems that hang at reboot or take a while to reboot.
> >
> > Thanks

 

[Olaf Engelke [MVP Windows Server]]

Hi,
"SPiderman" <SPiderman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:659A5AF2-97C0-45F8-99E0-C4EF425B58BE@microsoft.com...
> Does this work on 2000 servers?
> "cbass" wrote:
>> I have a scheduled task created on each server that will reboot it in the
>> middle of the night. It's free and has worked well for the last year or
>> so.
>> Here is what I have in the run command of the scheduled task:
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 25
>> "SPiderman" wrote:
>> > Can someone tell me what the best solution is to schedule reboots of
>> > windows
>> > 2000/2003 servers that is inexpensive or free?
>> > We have some systems that hang at reboot or take a while to reboot.
>> >
there is a shutdown.exe in the Resource Kit tools for Windows 2000, which
can be found here:
http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm
The syntax may differ from the Windows Server 2003 version.
Another tool is psshutdown, which can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psshutdown.mspx
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf