Re: Remote Restart via AS
Re: Remote Restart via AS
- Subject: Re: Remote Restart via AS
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:08:40 -0600
Entity Mark Record spoke thus:
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Hello Applescripters,
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At my office, we have a server running Filemaker. For some reason the
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Filemaker Server application is prone to crashing (actually it doesn't
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crash, but it will stay open and stop sharing databases - is "hang" the
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proper word?). When this happens, we have to restart the machine to get
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the FM Server to work again.
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Quite often the server will crash/hang/stop working when there is
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nobody at the office to physically restart the machine and remote
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workers need access to the FM databases.
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My thinking is that a remote restart should be something that I could
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accomplish via applescript (as opposed to shelling out money for Remote
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Desktop or Timbuktu).
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The real question is how to trigger it remotely. I was thinking of
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making a Folder Action (when file is dropped into the folder, the
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computer restarts), but that just seems like an ugly way to do it.
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Any suggestions?
The only gizmo I know that can do that is this:
http://www.sophisticated.com/products/powerkey/pkp_650.html
Sophisticated Circuits PowerKey Pro Model 650
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Oh yeah, and here's the kicker: the server is running OS 8.6...
Condolences...
-- Gnarlie
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