Daily Restart

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(imported topic written by samuel7791)

Hi, I would like to restart a group of machines daily at 7PM. Is there any way to do this using BigFix?

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey Samuel,

Sure… Probably the easiest thing to do will be to find the “Restart Needed” Fixlet and then target it to the group of computers you want, and make it “Re-run” continuously every day between 7pm and 8pm (or whatever times are reasonable windows to restart and wait 1 day between re-applications. This will only restart computers if they have a restart pending (computers will not be restarted if they don’t need a restart based on the status of the OS).

I have heard of several customers who use functionality like this…

Ben

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(imported comment written by samuel7791)

Hi Ben,

what happens If i need the client PCs to reboot?

The scenario is this: I have a batch file that I want the client to run at each restart. This batch file controls program distribution as well as synchronization of application folders.

regards,

Samuel

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey samuel77,

To make the Agents restart even if they don’t need it, when you take the action change the relevance on the “relevance” tab to “TRUE” and on the “actionscript” tab, choose the “run to completion” option.

Also, you might consider using BES to run the batch script directly OR make BES in charge of deploying the software.

Ben

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(imported comment written by samuel7791)

Hi Ben,

I noticed that if I changed the relevance to true then the action status on completion will become failed. How should I do this such that action status will be correctly reflected?

Samuel

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Samuel,

Did you choose the “run to completion” option in the actionscript tab? If so, it should report “completed” instead of “failed”.

Ben

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(imported comment written by samuel7791)

Hi Ben,

do you mean the “Success Criteria” Tab?

Consider this action successful when “all lines of the action script have completed successfully”

Regards,

Samuel

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey Samuel,

Yes… Oops… I forgot renamed it a few versions back… but that is right and it should fix the issue…

Ben