Well your workstation should be able to handle all that, the consoles, and more. If it can't, get an upgrade :-)
The guys I work with have just the same inexplicable approach, tho. They RDP to systems just to check event logs. And now they are on Win7 they think running without admin privs is even more of a reason to do this. I run my MMC elevated, so I don't have that problem, but for some reason that's a little complex for them. But guess what? When something bad happens, guess who can identify the problem first? Guess who can see all the events because he's not busy ringing other teams to see why they've left inactive RDP sessions on the server? Its little things like that that contribute to being more productive, IMHO Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -----Original Message----- From: "John Aldrich" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:32:10 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot I *AM* running multiple apps at once. Microsoft LookOut!...err... Outlook is a bit of a resource hog. My AS/400 terminal client is running now, I have a VNC session going, I have Chrome running multiple tabs... so, yeah... my system isn't just sitting here doing nothing. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot This I don't understand, running of management tools on (sometimes dedicated) servers. Why not go the whole hog and run your email and internet browsing on a server too? If you were using a thin client or a drastically underpowered PC, then this would make sense, but not if you have a decent workstation. I agree that running lots of consoles creates a headache due to startup time and occasionally on a resource basis, so what we try to do is integrate as much stuff as possible into OpsManager, so we don't need to stare at a load of consoles. Then I can only open consoles as I need to work on them. But if your PC can't handle running seven or eight applications including a few management consoles, or if you worry because your machine uses lots of its memory (even though it is there to be used), then you have a few issues that need to be resolved. Just my 2 penneth worth, ymmv Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment ________________________________________ From: Steve Ens <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:04:20 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot Better on a workstation than on a server is all I can say. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:29 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: Well, yeah... but I don't choose to load down my workstation with a whole bunch of management consoles and associated crap. :D From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot Agreed. I can run the VIPRE console on the server but choose to do it from my desktop machine instead. It's rarely open on the server. Roger Wright ___ Dr. Seuss is my favorite rapper! Cat - Hat... sheer genius! On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote: Why on earth have the console running all the time, then? On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:14 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: Nope... it's not the Vipre server that's the problem, it's the console. Guess I'll just have to live with manually shutting down the console if I want to reboot the server. It's not that big a deal now that I've decided not to automatically reboot the server weekly. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot how about a "net stop <vipre services>". I can't test right now, but that seems like it would stop the console too. there's two key vipre services, by the way. If you can "net stop", there's no reason to taskkill ________________________________________ From: Andrew S. Baker [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot Well, if they (app vendor) offer no programmatic way to shut the console down, and they (app vendor) are suggesting that you kill the task, then your only other alternative will be an application that programmatically manages the dialog boxes. This approach will likely be complicated by the state of the server (e.g. workstation locked). Process killing is rarely fraught with peril... ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:44 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: I suppose there’s no real reason to reboot the server on a scheduled basis… THAT server has never had any real issues… As for not running the Console remotely, I really don’t wish to install it on another machine as it’s a bit of a resource hog. As far as taskkill, I just don’t like killing off a process “just because”, and that’s what that seems like to me. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot A - Why are you rebooting the server on a scheduled basis? B - Why are you not running the Vipre console remotely? C - What's wrong with Taskkill (assuming you don't wish to address the previous two issues)? ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: I have to manually shut down Vipre Enterprise Console if I want the server to come up on a scheduled reboot, otherwise it hangs the server and I have to manually power-cycle the server to get it to work. I checked with Sunbelt support and they said there is no way to *programmatically* close the console when I reboot the server (scheduled task, so it's non-interactive.) They suggested using Microsoft's TaskKill. Anyone got any better suggestions? 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