Depends. Do you have a Premier Support Agreement? If so, the answer can be yes.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:33 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > Fix it how? Who's the vendor that I can go to and say "fix > it!"? Microsoft? Legato? > > Even if I remove Legato and PCAnywhere from my servers so > that it is Microsoft only, do you think Microsoft is going to > send engineers out here to track down why our IS does not > shut down cleanly after the server has been running for months? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:29 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > Yeah, and then you fix it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:26 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > The fact that some people can smoke 3 packs of Marlboros a > day and still live to be 90 years old doesn't mean that > cigarettes aren't dangerous. Likewise, the fact that you (and > others) can run problem-free computer systems without > rebooting doesn't mean there aren't bugs in the software. It > simply means that people have different computer > environments. Different users, different software, different > networks, hell, maybe different gamma rays - who knows? > > The simple fact is that NT and Exchange (and other auxiliary > software like backup agents and remote-control) are not > bug-free, nor will they ever be. Some bugs, when tickled, > create subtle "corruption" (overwriting a random memory > location, locking a resource, whatever). Eventually, some > vital organ is hit and the system gets sick... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:57 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > Sir, > > How do you explain the folks who run this stuff > everyday without any (or little:-)) errors? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:47 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > Because ASP gets senile quickly. If we don't reboot the OWA > server weekly, we start seeing ASP errors on the OWA server. > > Likewise, we can count on the IMS servers to start flaking > out after a month or two if we don't reboot them. Twice > monthly is probably overkill, but since the reboots are > "free" (ie: users never notice), we go for twice monthly. > > Mailbox servers tend to be a bit more stable, but prior to > the reboots, we would occasionally start seeing errors, and > when we tried to manually reboot, the exchange services would > never go down cleanly. > > In honesty, we started these reboots in the NT SP5 & MSX SP2 > days. We've not tried reducing them since we went to 6a & SP3. > > For the people on the list who insist that periodic reboots > aren't needed: please save yourselves the effort of telling > me how reboots aren't required if you have quality hardware > and good admin practices. The boxes are HP netservers, lotsa > RAM and CPU, and are running on EMC disk arrays. Likewise, > our administration is VERY conservative. We do nothing to the > servers unless we fully understand and test first on separate > test systems. The only software on these boxes other than NT > and Exchange is PCAnywhere and Legato networker client. > > I like Exchange. I like Exchange a lot. But it is not > bug-free. I've found that periodic reboots tend to keep > obscure bugs obscure. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:21 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > But why are the reboots required? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:17 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > If you are into Perl, I've got a script that I use to reboot > our MSX55 servers (monthly for mailbox servers, twice monthly > for IMS, weekly for OWA). It could undoubtedly be tweaked for > what you want. > > It shuts down the MSX services before the reboot (and > verifies that they do indeed stop). After the reboot is > complete, it verifies that any service running at the time of > reboot is running after the reboot. > > Sends email showing the results. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Cornett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:34 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > Does anyone know how to schedule the automatic rebooting of > Windows 2000 Servers. I have looked on the their website and > have found next to nothing about how to do this. What I am > trying to do is on our Mail server I want to have the machine > reboot say every Sunday night at a certain time. If anyone > knows how to do this in Windows 2000 I would greatly > appreciate the information. > > > > > _____________________________________ > James Cornett > > Network Administrator > New Israel Fund > 1101 14th Street, NW > Sixth Floor > Washington, DC 20005 > Phone: 202-842-0900 ext. 269 > Fax: 202-842-0991 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.newisraelfund.org > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > -- > The information contained in this email message is privileged > and confidential information intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to whom it is addressed. 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