As promised here is a quick write up on how I am doing security patches for our servers now. Basically I am able to run the script during normal work hours and schedule the patching for the evening. At night when the patching starts I get email notifications with success/fail information for each server. I have been using this process for 3 or 4 months now and it’s working great.
From time to time you need a method to create and test for the existence of a zero byte file in your scripting. I use these files as flags, so that I know if an earlier prerequisite process completed successfully.
Creating the zero byte file is a simple process:
@echo off
echo.
echo – Check to see if the file [...]
Below is an example how you can restart a service on one more many systems using Script Zombie as the controlling application:
@echo off
Echo.
Echo Remotely Restart a Service
Echo ————————–
sc \\%1 stop servicename
sc \\%1 start servicename
In this example we use SC.exe (Service Control) to first stop the service and then restart it. In this case %1 is [...]
Current Version: 0.85
Release Date: 01.21.2009
Licensing: Freeware (Guaranteed Spyware/adware free)
System Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 2003, or Vista.
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