Forced shutdown and restart from XP and or internal WG mgm

Mar 27 04 4:57 am

Hi!
Wingate stopps talking to clients at least once a day.
Due to the problem with DNS / ENS in WG 5.2.3 I have tried to set up automatic shutdown/restart of Wingate once/twice a day. This will improve uptime for my users. I am not always close to the system to be able to restart WG. Sometimes I am off for a cuple of hours or days. My users do not like stops at all, but frequent restarts is better than nothing.

I have tried the internal stop and start of services. I can't get it to do it's job?

I have tried to set Windows XP to shut down and restart Wingare with a 5 min delay between shut down and restart. Nothing happens. Is there some parameters I have to give Wingate in the sceduled activites in XP? Exept from -start and/or -stop?

Sometimes I notice that WG is very very busy when I try to do a shutdown. It is like a looping system. I have to wait and wait for shutdown and the best way is Ctl-Alt-Del and killing the WG process. WHY???

I do not want to reinstall Windows NT4 SP6. But it was better for WG....

Some advice please,
Anders

Mar 29 04 3:27 am

Is an automated restart of the computer out of the question?

Mar 29 04 4:07 am

Nil Einne wrote:Is an automated restart of the computer out of the question?

SORRY for asking a stupid question but do I have to write a script or something to be able to restart XP automaticly with automated password and user ID? I can not find any simple way to do that. Right now the automated XP scheduling of taskas (control panel) restarts Wingate twice a day. I have also set up restart of the Wingate service in the XP OS services (for occasions when the WG engine randomly totally stops).

But there are times when a total automated restart of the server computer is most needed and I do not know how to do that. Pls give me an easy answer to that and an example.

Regards,
Anders

PS The internal WG scheduler DO NOT restart or stop/restart any services WHY???

Mar 29 04 6:42 am

No the built in XP task scheduler can do it. All you need is something which shuts down or restarts the computer. I use the small and simple Wizmo tools (check out www.grc.com) but Windows comes with shutdown.exe

Mar 29 04 7:11 am

Nil Einne wrote:No the built in XP task scheduler can do it. All you need is something which shuts down or restarts the computer. I use the small and simple Wizmo tools (check out www.grc.com) but Windows comes with shutdown.exe

OK
Will try Wizmo... (Still don't see how I will get automatic logon with user and password but will see...)

/Thanks

Mar 29 04 7:51 am

Nil Einne wrote:No the built in XP task scheduler can do it. All you need is something which shuts down or restarts the computer. I use the small and simple Wizmo tools (check out www.grc.com) but Windows comes with shutdown.exe

OK
Will try Wizmo... (Still don't see how I will get automatic logon with user and password but will see...)

Hmm I downloade an tried to find a reboot with automated login. Passw and ID but I cant see it. Pls advice.....

/Thanks