The Reboot problem

re: The Reboot problem

bradley — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:42:39 GMT

I've had issues with reboots. ILO board in every server is the way to go. Dedicated ILO subnets and LDAP (AD) based authentication/authorization as well.

re: The Reboot problem

Andy — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:41:39 GMT

I've been having major problems with servers not rebooting after pressing the "restart now" option after installing the patches for the past two sets of patch tuesdays. Fortunately I've been able to run shutdown.exe from another machine, but 45-90 minutes to reboot a server is ridiculous. - It's taken this long after waiting a reasonable amount for the first reboot to work and then getting a connection (somehow) to another machine to force a reboot.

re: The Reboot problem

Nick — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:19:26 GMT

It's painful for us too.. the ILO and DRAC cards help, but can be a challange to get the customer on-board with. To help address this on the front side, we did devleop some QA testing and documentation procedures, and tied these into an in-house web-app for knowledge transfer and collaboration. More here... http://addicted-to-it.blogspot.com/2006/09/patching-reboot-problem.html

re: The Reboot problem

Bucky — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:57:34 GMT

I get a little under 1% failure for workstation reboots every scheduled patch day. The odd bit for me is that it isn’t always the same set of machines. The workstations tend to hang during shutdown after logoff, at what one of my users describes as "the blue screen that isn’t a bsod").

re: The Reboot problem

WorkingHard — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:48:58 GMT

Servers Manual, Workstations using WSUS. Over 127 PC patched since tuesday and about about 20 Servers a mix of W2K, W2k3 x32/x64, Windows XP on the clients, no SBS servers and not a single issue. All works as supposed to and it has for many years on hundreds of machines in my own sites and customers except for some isolated emergencies due to conflict with a running 3rd party defrag, hardware issue ... etc ... Biggest "fear" with paching is 3rd party software breaking. We've seen more issues due to not pachting than because of patching.