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Questions tagged [automation]

the field of converting any manual process into one that can be run mostly, or entirely, "hands-free"

Automation is a wide-ranging term, covering topics from cron to "push-button provisioning and deployment" or system and application stacks. The ultimate goal of some automation projects is the so-called "Zero-Latency Data Center", while for others it may just be sending alerts based on certain events. More information can be found here.

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Start services.msc attached to remote computer

Is there a way to start services.msc already attached to a remote system (e.g. from command line)? I want to avoid clicking Action -> Connect to remote computer, because I have to do it so often...
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Nightly system reimaging options

We are planning to deploy many groups of workstations into a "hostile" environment (think public library, university common area, Internet cafe, etc.) which will have a particular system image that will need to be pushed to all of the systems in…
Justin Scott
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Automated Shutdown through Batch File

so Im administering 100 desktop PCs at a local university in the pacific (dot in the map) and my boss has told me to write a script to carry out an automated shutdown of all computers at 10pm. I've created a batch file with the "shutdown /s" command…
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How can I restart a service designed to run under supervise

I have written a service designed to run under daemontools supervise. Because the run script refreshes a source code repository: git pull pod_server # serve up docs on source code via the web I desire for the script to restart every 5…
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Automation Software

I work at a company that has big amount of VMs and Physical servers and we are constantly upgrading them, by installing different packages and adding new services. We were thinking of buying a software with which we can automate this process despite…
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Automatic repair software

Do anyone knows any kind of apps or services for "taking care of servers"? (besides managed servers) There are hundreds of ways your server or application can stop working properly. Small things are easy to miss but usually easy to fix. Log…
ADOConnection
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