Restart System

The Restart System object will restart a computer on your network. The Restart System object can either wait for applications to shut down gracefully or you can configure the object to forcefully shut down any running applications. You also can send a message to notify your users of the reason for the disruption.

This object uses a satellite license. See Objects that Require Satellite Licenses for more information.

How it is used

Some applications may consume memory and hard disk space and will not relinquish them without restarting the system. The Restart System object can be used to restart these systems during maintenance windows to maintain service up-time during business hours.  

Configuration

To configure the Restart System object you will need to know the computer that you want to restart and whether you will want to forcefully shut down any running applications.

Details Tab

 

Computer	Type the computer where that you are restarting. Type localhost to specify the Action Server where the Policy is being processed. You can also use the ellipsis (...) button to browse for the computer.
Message	Type a message that will be displayed to users of the Computer before it is shut down. Note: This field is mandatory to use the Restart System object.
Wait	Type the number of seconds after sending the Message to the users before the system will be shutdown.
Force applications to close	Select to forcefully shut down any applications that are running when the system is restarted.

Available Published Data

 

Name	Description
Computer	The computer that was restarted.
Message to display	The message that was sent to the computer before restarting.
Shutdown delay	The number of seconds of delay between the message being sent and the computer restart.
Force open apps to close	Determines whether open applications were forced to shutdown when the computer was restarted. This value can be either 'true' or 'false'.

Common Published Data