Exchange Wake up on LAN

Hello,
We are having lot of power issues and sometimes our servers shutdown in the
middle of the night. Here is something I want to implement.

We have 2 servers AD server and exchange server 2003 std. I want to change
the boot options for AD server to Restore on AC power loss and exchange to
Wake up on LAN. I will put a script to turn on the exchange on AD server
startup. (I assume that AD server should be available for exchange before it
is powered up for proper operation. I turned both at the same time and
exchange did not work properly)

How do I run the script without someone actually have to log into the AD
server. Can a script be run without logging on.
Does this whole thing sounds reasonable or am I missing something basic here.

Appreciate your replies!

Mark
Thu Mar 13 16:28:14 CDT 2008

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:58:01 -0700, Praveen
<Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>We are having lot of power issues and sometimes our servers shutdown in the
>middle of the night. Here is something I want to implement.
>
>We have 2 servers AD server and exchange server 2003 std. I want to change
>the boot options for AD server to Restore on AC power loss and exchange to
>Wake up on LAN. I will put a script to turn on the exchange on AD server
>startup. (I assume that AD server should be available for exchange before it
>is powered up for proper operation. I turned both at the same time and
>exchange did not work properly)
>
>How do I run the script without someone actually have to log into the AD
>server. Can a script be run without logging on.
>Does this whole thing sounds reasonable or am I missing something basic here.
>
>Appreciate your replies!

Personally yes, I think you're missing something basic. Fix the power
problems. At worst buy yourself a little UPS that brings the server
down gracefully and up again when power is restored to the UPS.

I think it unwise to waste your time trying to work around a problem
that isn't on the Exchange box.

Andrew
Sun Mar 16 02:46:14 CDT 2008

Do you have a UPS?



"Praveen" <Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:299CBA3B-8182-4A8C-BDDE-41719E8897D8@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> We are having lot of power issues and sometimes our servers shutdown in
> the
> middle of the night. Here is something I want to implement.
>
> We have 2 servers AD server and exchange server 2003 std. I want to change
> the boot options for AD server to Restore on AC power loss and exchange to
> Wake up on LAN. I will put a script to turn on the exchange on AD server
> startup. (I assume that AD server should be available for exchange before
> it
> is powered up for proper operation. I turned both at the same time and
> exchange did not work properly)
>
> How do I run the script without someone actually have to log into the AD
> server. Can a script be run without logging on.
> Does this whole thing sounds reasonable or am I missing something basic
> here.
>
> Appreciate your replies!

Jason
Fri Mar 21 09:11:24 CDT 2008

I agree with the others, fix the power problems first. Talk to your
facilities manager, or who ever is in charge of power for the building
and explain your situation. Make sure you point out to your superiors
that the server issues are power related. Power is and always will be
the first step in providing long up times. Getting a UPS for both your
DC(atleast one) and exchange servers would be the first order of
business. Then just to be safe, you should be able to go into the BIOS
of your servers and tell them to boot when power is restored. Obviously
timing of the boot process is going to be difficult to control and is
largely dependent on which server is faster. You could maybe create a
schedule task that runs every so often, 10 minutes?, that runs a script
that checks to see if the exchange services are running and if not start
them.

Just my two cents, hope this helps.

Jason

Praveen wrote:
> Hello,
> We are having lot of power issues and sometimes our servers shutdown in the
> middle of the night. Here is something I want to implement.
>
> We have 2 servers AD server and exchange server 2003 std. I want to change
> the boot options for AD server to Restore on AC power loss and exchange to
> Wake up on LAN. I will put a script to turn on the exchange on AD server
> startup. (I assume that AD server should be available for exchange before it
> is powered up for proper operation. I turned both at the same time and
> exchange did not work properly)
>
> How do I run the script without someone actually have to log into the AD
> server. Can a script be run without logging on.
> Does this whole thing sounds reasonable or am I missing something basic here.
>
> Appreciate your replies!