Re: Auto Reboots
- From: Tony Gravagno <address.is.in.posts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:53:56 -0700
Why would anyone reboot Windows nightly?
1) Because Windows has a largely earned reputation for requiring
periodic rebooting to refresh RAM and other resources. If you want to
get into a holy war about this there are better forums.
2) Because Windows Update actually does require a reboot, not always
but often, so on the chance that WU has installed updates, a reboot
implements the changes, so a periodic scheduled reboot (so the
thinking goes) ensures the system is fairly up to date.
3) Most software doesn't have flushing issues like D3, so powering off
doesn't have the same consequences.
About D3, you can auto-shutdown when the OS says it's going down, and
auto-start at Windows boot. I'd tell you how to do this but I'd have
to bill you for consultation.
About the Windows shutdown event tracker, you can disable this. I'd
tell you how to do this but I'd have to bill you for consultation.
About how to deal with people who shutdown your servers without
permission, I'd tell you how to do this but I'd have to bill you for
consultation. A bit of free advice though: wear gloves, thow the gun
and saw in the lake when you're done, and the weights need to be
heavier than the bodies. And that's all I have to say about that.
T
"Peter McMurray" wrote:
Hi I am always ready to be amazed by modern technology.
however this claim has me beat. A system on a managed
service, using Citrix over the internet, has been
suffering severe problems and had to be restored. I
found that the system was being deliberately crashed
at around 2:45 am in a pattern that suggested it only
happened when a particular nightshift operator was on.
I restored the system, complaints were made and all
went OK for a week. Then Friday, bad news , things
like set-date-eur in the user-coldstart were not
working! Saturday, worse, I logon to check and am
greeted by a window
"Shutdown event tracker Why did the computer shut down
unexpectedly A shutdown or restart for an unknown
reason" The window prompts for a problem id and a
comment
Needless to say D3 had lost several thousand frames
from POVF. The manager blithely tells me Oh! that's
just the auto reboot procedure. Apparently they have
dreamed up a job that runs around rebooting every
server every night. Two questions Is this possible in
an orderly fashion even ignoring D3 given the varying
time that machines take to reboot? Why in the name of
all that is holy would anyone do it? System Windows
Server 2003 D3 7.5.4
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