Daily Reboot issues

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(imported topic written by EricH)

We are trying to run daily reboots based on an automatic group, but are finding issues with clients slowly not running the reboots. It seems that it will work 100% the first night and, from then on, it tapers off to maybe 75% the second day…50% the third…etc. There are around 5300 workstaitons that fit the criteria.

The automatic group we are targeting grabs a particular type of workstation in our environment based on an INI setting and also based on the last time it rebooted.

The fixlet runs between 1am and 3am every morning. I have it set where if the action becomes relevant again after successfully executed, that it will be reapplied an unlimited number of times. If the job fails it retries it 3 more times. It also staggers over a 5 minute period. The action script itself just runs “restart 1800”.

Any thoughts on how to get this working more consistently?

Thanks!

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(imported comment written by Tim.Rice)

If you really are using a Fixlet, try using a Task. A Fixlet determines Success or Failure by reevaluating the relevance and expecting it to evaluate to False after running otherwise it Fails. This might cause your machines, over time to fall out of the action. A Task on the other hand, simply looks to see if all the lines executed without error.

Internally, a Task and a Fixlet are the same, it’s simply how the client defaults to determining Success and Failure that differentiates them.

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(imported comment written by EricH)

Sorry, it’s actually a task, not a fixlet.