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Reboot Machines

Jan 4, 2010
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>>Script Language and Platform: MS-DOS Batch File

This batch file will reboot machines.

Pre-requisite:

a. Windows 2003 machine


b. Login or the scheduled job that runs this reboot.bat should have admin access


to all the machines

Steps:

1. Step1: Create D:scriptsrebootserverlist.txt and the list all the machines that you want to reboot.

Example:

MyServer
SQL1Prod
SQL1QA
DOTNET1a

2. Step2: Create D:scriptsrebootreboot.bat

REM Objective: TO reboot all the
  machines listed in D:scriptrebootserverlist.txt
REM Created by : MAK
REM Created Date: Jan 5, 2005
REM Save this file as
  D:scriptsrebootreboot.bat
for /ftokens=1,2,3” %%i in
 (D:scriptsrebootserverlist.txt)
 do c:windowssystem32shutdown.exe /m \%%i /r /f /cYou machine is going to be restarted in 10 minutes” /t 600

3. Step3: Create D:scriptsrebootAbortreboot.bat


REM Objective: TO abort reboot on all the machine listed in
  D:scriptrebootserverlist.txt
REM Created by : MAK
REM Created Date: Jan 5, 2005
REM Save this file as D:scriptsrebootabortreboot.bat
for /ftokens=1,2,3” %%i in
  (D:scriptsrebootserverlist.txt)
  do c:windowssystem32shutdown.exe /a /m \%%i

Author: MAK

Download Script:
reboot.bat_



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