I've been running a park (I admit a small park) of 6-9 NT servers for
over two years now.
The NT Servers need some fiddling with the services, but once installed
correctly, they run forever. I can count the times I had to boot the
machines out of the blue on one hand; Of course you get into a boot
frenzy whenever you're installing anything on NT machines.
One of the servers is running IMail at about 1000 mails a day, plus IIS
4.0 and SQL Server 6.5 with a pretty big database on it. No rebooting
necessary. The only problem I have is the IIS not being able to create
ActiveX components every once in a while. I have a batch set up that
runs automatically at that time which does a "net stop w3svc, net stop
msftpsvc, kill inetinfo, net start w3svc, net start msftpsvc", a cycle
which usually takes only 30 seconds to complete.
If you have any questions regarding running servers on your own and from
remote, let me know! Oh, I forgot: If your system is so unstable that it
needs rebooting, you'll probably need a MasterSwitch (by APC), it lets
you hard boot the machine by turning off the juice via web interface!
- Balt
Brian Politis wrote:
>
> Use the scheduler service and "shutdown" command from the resource kit.
> There are a couple of articles in the knowledgebase on how to set this up.
>
> I currently have 6 servers rebooting every sunday at 4:00am and have yet to
> have a problem using this approach.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 4:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] [OT] Setting NT to automatically log-in upon
> restart...
>
> Hi all,
>
> Using VNC for remote server maintenance, which works great, except for the
> dreaded re-boot. I know there's a way to have NT automatically log-on as a
> user or admin or whatever, but I can't track it down. Can someone point me
> in the right direction?
>
> Thanks for the bandwidth,
> Ron
