I just bought an optiplex990 I7Quad, 16GB Ram, solid state drive, Office 2010 Pro, Win7proX64 for $1820.00 Not bad I figure. For our Exec Director who will be crunching 500,000 row spreadsheets, with pivots, vlookups, if statements galore that end up being about 150MB in xlsb format. Hope it's enough....really.
From: Don Ely [mailto:don....@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 03:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot $2500?!?!?!?! Funny, my company didn't pay more than $1000 for my quad core with 8GB of RAM.... On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Stefan Jafs <stefan.j...@gmail.com<mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com>> wrote: Yeah, I guess the carpet business is flat on the floor in this economy. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:08 PM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote: Gee... you got an extra $2500+ or so for all new hardware and software? I mean, I'd love to have a nice new 64-bit Windows 7 machine with Office 2010 and all that stuff...but unfortunately, I don't have that. I've got a 3-year-old Optiplex running XP Pro 32-bit. And with the way the economy is going lately, I don't see me getting an upgraded desktop machine any time soon. From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com<mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot Just a thought...perhaps you need a new workstation if those things you've listed tax it's resources to the point that you can't do your job appropriately. But then, given your posts regarding this "problem" today I doubt you'll understand anything I have to say either. But I feel bad for Jonathan whose head seems to be swelling. He's been walking around paraphrasing "Tombstone" of all things... - WJR On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 14:32, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote: 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: kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com> [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>] 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 <stevey...@gmail.com<mailto:stevey...@gmail.com>> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:04:20 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> 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 <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> 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:rhw...@gmail.com<mailto:rhw...@gmail.com>] 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 <jonathan.l...@gmail.com<mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: Why on earth have the console running all the time, then? On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:14 PM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> 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:k...@colonialsavings.com<mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com>] 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 [asbz...@gmail.com<mailto:asbz...@gmail.com>] 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 <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> 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:asbz...@gmail.com<mailto:asbz...@gmail.com>] 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 <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> 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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