(imported topic written by cstoneba)
I want to force a restart in the middle of the action. The easiest way I can think to do it is the command ‘dos shutdown -r -f -t 00’, but I read in the forum that BigFix suggests using it’s restart commands. However, I don’t want the restart to occur after the action is complete. What is the way around this?
using the command ‘restart’ prompts the user to restart, so that’s no good.
(imported comment written by cstoneba)
Well, I got it to work running the follwoing vbs script.
//restart
delete __appendfile
appendfile Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:” _
appendfile & “{{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\.\root\cimv2”)
appendfile Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
appendfile (“Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem”)
appendfile For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
appendfile ObjOperatingSystem.Reboot()
appendfile Next
move __appendfile restart.vbs
waithidden “{pathname of system folder}\wscript.exe” restart.vbs
delete restart.vbs
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Hi cstoneba,
Actually, there is a much easier way:
restart
– prompts the user to click OK
restart
– counts down and restarts the computer
You can see the restart/shutdown section at: http://support.bigfix.com/bes/misc/customactions.html
Ben
(imported comment written by cstoneba)
I’ve tried both and when I used restart 0, it still required the user to click Take Action.