I'm working on getting a nightly deployment of our software up on a test server. Part of the install requires rebooting the deployment server, so I need a good way of detecting that the deployment server is alive and kicking.
The process is going to be - map drive to remote computer - run uninstall of previous build - copy fresh build - reboot remote - wait till remote back online - remotely execute installer - reboot remote - wait till remote back online - test server is functional - continue on with other tasks The mapping is easy and handled. The remote execution I think I'll use psexec from pstools for or a vbs script calling WMI Copying is simple Rebooting remotely I'll use pstools or vbs calling WMI Where I'm looking for guidance is how to detect the remote server has finished it's reboot and test the remote server is up. Servicecontroller might have been a possibility if it had a status actiontype, but it only has actiontypes that change the server. I was thinking if there was a exec I could perform in a loop, and checking the output with conditionals to see the program had the results I wanted or not.. but I'm not sure if I can process the output of a exec command inside nant? Suggestions on a route to take? I know I can do this type of conditional checking in another scripting language, but I hate adding more and more dependancies into the environment. If I could do this within nant alone with windows supplied programs that's the best case. -Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ NAnt-users mailing list NAnt-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
