Re: [ADSM-L] UNIX BA client trigger a Windows Server action

Hi, Larry.

The easiest way would be to use something like Autosys or Control_M to
schedule the job dependencies and execute the batch/cmd and script files
on the appropriate servers at the appropriate times.

If you don't want to use an independent scheduling package, it is fairly
easy to install a ssh server on the Windows server.  This is fairly easy
with Cygwin/sshd.  The UNIX script ssh's with rsa key authentication to
the windows server to execute the batch/cmd scripts that stop and start
the application.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Larry Peifer
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:21 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] UNIX BA client trigger a Windows Server action

What methods are available to have a UNIX BA client trigger the shutdown
of
a Windows server and start it back up again after finishing the backup.

The windows server is running software the relies on an Oracle database
and
it does not handle the cold backup of the oracle database.

The UNIX BA client is started via a cron job to shutdown the Oracle DB,
start a TSM backup and wait for it to finish, and then start the Oracle
database.  Is there a way to add a step to the UNIX cron job to trigger
the
shutdown of the Windows server and know when it is down in order to go
to
the next step.  The same type of trigger would be needed to start up the
Windows server after the Oracle DB starts successfully following the TSM
backup.


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