[THIN] Re: Scheduling CitrixXP reboots
- From: "Webmail" <web@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:29:31 -0500
I second that! We've been using it for years. WMSoftware.com products are
some of the best priced on the market. I love their Instant Messaging
package also. Inexpensive yet does the job.
Jim
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Luchette, Jon
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:01 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Scheduling CitrixXP reboots
I would recommend WMSoftware's Shutdown Plus Rolling Restart because it
gives you that ability and more actually.
With Resource Manager (available in XPe) you have the ability to schedule
your reboots within the Citrix Management Console and send users a message
before the reboot, and with FR3 you can disable logons to your server and
wait until all users are logged off until the server reboots. However the
problem with that is that you are not running XPe and also, sometimes all
users do not log off, and in that case your server never reboots.
You could also use some intelligent scripting to get the job done, but even
that does not give you all of the options that this little utility will.
Most often a reboot script will disable logons to the server, maybe even
send a message to users, wait x number of hours for the users to logoff and
after that amount of time, reboot the server.
The advantages of this utility are that it will give you a GUI that will
allow you to choose between: waiting for all users to logoff (like FR3),
waiting x number of hours and then either forcing the users to logoff and
then rebooting or skipping to the next server and not rebooting, sending a
message or not sending a message and when. It will also give you a nice
little log file of which servers rebooted successfully or not and when. It
is very easy to use this utility the most effective way possible in your
particular environment. Also most reboot scripts just use plain jane
scripting commands which makes the server reboot more like just pushing the
power button twice.
I don't know maybe it is just me, but this app is small, easy to use and
install, and PRETTY FREAKIN CHEAP too! I think it is well worth it if you
are a 24x7 shop and need to reboot without effecting the user community at
all.
/jL
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Benway [mailto:benwayj@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:44 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Scheduling CitrixXP reboots
Quick update. After looking back at my 1.8 boxes, I have 3 batch files that
run using AT once a week to reboot the 1.8 boxes will these still work with
XP or are their better solutions. I'm running CitrixXP FP3 on windows 2000
SP3
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Disablelogon.bat
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@ECHO OFF
CHANGE LOGON /DISABLE
QSERVER %COMPUTERNAME% /UPDATE
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