Have you considered merely restarting SQL and the DTC service rather than a full reboot?
- ASB -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Oppermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scheduling NT Server Reboots Well...if you'd like the skinny, here it is. We run a Win NT 4.0 BackOffice Server w/ sp6a. The database package (which runs on top of SQL Server 7.0) which we use contains a service that doesn't like sp6a. The developer of the software has confirmed this and unfortuantely the patch was applied before I began employment here. We have been planning an eventual upgrade of the software which is supposed to fix this problem, but for now the easiest way to circumvent the particular DCOM registration timeout is to reboot the server nightly. Uninstalling sp6a is not an option because it doesn't uninstalled cleanly. I have attempted to run down the bug, and I followed the service ID string into the registry. That's when I found out that the developers service was not registering itself into DCOM. Called the software company....etc, etc. I was ready to rip my hair out for a while trying to diagnose this problem, but when the developer told me it's a bug my hair got to stay. The system's DCOM seems to have a timeout value of about 1 1/2 days. So I have resigned myself to this course of action and manually remote reboot the system every night. Matthew Oppermann Systems Admin Symbiotics, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scheduling NT Server Reboots the bigger question is WHY do you feel you need to reboot every night? Attack that problem rather than applying a bandaid. That said, you can use the scheduler to schedule the program. Type at /? at a command prompt. If I'm not mistaken, the reskit also has a GUI front end to the scheduler. Or if you have an APC UPS, it has an ability to reboot servers on a schedule. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Oppermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scheduling NT Server Reboots I have been looking around, hoping to find a way to do automatic reboots to an NT server. I heard there was a reboot program on the NT Resource Kit, and after purchasing it found out that the particular program has to be manually run and activated, but it does reboot any manchine on the network. How can I force the reboot of a server at say 10:00 pm every weekday night? Matthew Oppermann Systems Admin Symbiotics, Inc. Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/
