Restart PC at start of Action

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by herrm91)

Is there a way to restart the machine at the start of an action then have the action complete once restarted?

I have a application package that occassionally restarts the workstation prior to installing. The issue is it doesn’t start the installation automatically once restarted. I would like always restart the workstation and have the install kick off immediately once restarted.

Thanks

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

According To Ben ™

The easiest way is to add the restart Fixlet to a baseline as the middle action (you can create a custom Task to do the restart if you want to ensure a restart occurs).

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=2934

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

When I needed this, I just restared it with a vbs script. within the action.

// restart computer

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

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey cstoneba,

Maybe it is easier just to do something like this (rather than a vbscript that calls wmi):

restart 30

Ben

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

I think we had this discussion before (http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=3052). What I didn’t like about the internal restart command is that it prompts the end user to take the action.

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Yes, but only for a moment (in this case 30 seconds) and then the restart is forced. Do you not want to prompt them at all?

Ben

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(imported comment written by herrm91)

Thanks everyone for the info.

I did see those other posts in the forum. No user will be logged in some I am not worried about a prompt. I am trying to eliminate the need have to schedule 2 actions. From what I am gathering, there is no way to perform a reboot and install in the same action script.

Is this correct?

Thanks

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Herrm,

Best thing to do would be to create a Task with “restart 30”, put it in a baseline with your other action, and then take the action on the systems.

Ben

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(imported comment written by herrm91)

Thanks Ben.

I’ll give that shot.

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(imported comment written by arpotu91)

All,

Can you tell me which OS’s work with the "restart " command? Previous posts also show use of “tsshutdn”, but that causes problems between x32 and x64 OS’s.

FYI, the restart command seemed to work fine on Windows 2003 64-bit Enterprise.

Thanks,

Arpotu.

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

"restart " should work on all OSes but I haven’t manually verified myself in a long time… I think there was an issue in early 7.0 versions (maybe pre-7.0.15 if I remember correctly) where this command had weird behavior, but I think it should work fine for most versions/OSes.

Ben