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Re: Remote Restart via AS
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Re: Remote Restart via AS


  • Subject: Re: Remote Restart via AS
  • From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:47:59 +0100

Number of options here. I'm assuming that your server doesn't crash but rather that FileMaker Server goes deaf. i.e. It refuses any new connections but the rest of the machine seems OK.

Firstly, check the Open Transport extensions. There was a problem with the Open Transport stuff which shipped with 8.6. Our 8.6 machine is running Open Transport 2.6.1 which shipped with OS 9 (according to Get Info). As this machine acts as a router with 2 NICs, it manages quite a lot of traffic. This will probably cure the problem.

If you want other options:

- Check out Personal Web Serving. You can write an AppleScript cgi which'll reboot the server. Obviously you'll want to make sure that it is password protected.

- On another machine on the same network, have a copy of FileMaker which queries the server every 5 minutes. If the event fails, use program linking (remote Apple Events) to restart the server.

Kick Off is probably NOT suitable here. The machine is not crashing per se. Rather, there's an Open Transport issue which results in loss of network connectivity.

HTH

Simon Forster
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On 14 Apr 2004, at 15:31, Mark Record wrote:

Hello Applescripters,

At my office, we have a server running Filemaker. For some reason the Filemaker Server application is prone to crashing (actually it doesn't crash, but it will stay open and stop sharing databases - is "hang" the proper word?). When this happens, we have to restart the machine to get the FM Server to work again.

Quite often the server will crash/hang/stop working when there is nobody at the office to physically restart the machine and remote workers need access to the FM databases.

My thinking is that a remote restart should be something that I could accomplish via applescript (as opposed to shelling out money for Remote Desktop or Timbuktu).

The real question is how to trigger it remotely. I was thinking of making a Folder Action (when file is dropped into the folder, the computer restarts), but that just seems like an ugly way to do it.

Any suggestions?


Oh yeah, and here's the kicker: the server is running OS 8.6...
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