Hi outthere

I am the owner of a dedicated system with
one rack of three inter-dependant servers.
Compaq Proliant running W2K server.

The UPS software does allow me to control
the sequence of shutting down the three servers
in case of a power outage. But, alas, no control of
their reboots once power is re-established.

Does anyone know of a simple technique of e.g.
implementing a 0 min. winboot delay on server
1, a 1 min. delay on server 2 and a 2 min. delay on
server 3. The three servers are pretty identical
hw-wise so if booted at the same time, the boot
time is almost identical for the three Compaq
proliant servers right now. It is rather important
for my system, that the boot sequence is controlled.

My local IT guys have no proposals except doing
manual reboots.

Kind Regards

Erik Malte Rasmussen,
LEO Pharma
mail: erik.rasmussen@(deletethis)leo-pharma.com

Hi - and thanks for your answers

You are right - both of you, please see the
following from a 'neighbour group':

Kind Regards

Erik


Hi - thanks for your quick answer.

Funnily enough your proposed solution dawned
upon me some 15 mins. after submitting my
post. I am somewhat embarrased for not remembering
this initially - I have actually changed the default
30 sec timeout to 5 secs on a few servers. Must
be the summer heat ;-)

So now, we will time the servers' boots and set
appropriate delays ensuring correct winboot sequence.

Thanks again

Erik

In article <0ad101c3505a$988704d0$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hi,
>
> Edit the boot.ini file on each of them and give them the
> required timeout. You can also do this by right-click My
> Computer->select Properties, go to Advanced tab, click
> Startup and Recovery, and change the value for 'Display
> list of operating systems for x seconds'
>
>




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> "Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > "deletethis leo-pharma.com" <erik.rasmussen@> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi outthere
> > >
> > > I am the owner of a dedicated system with
> > > one rack of three inter-dependant servers.
> > > Compaq Proliant running W2K server.
> > >
> > > The UPS software does allow me to control
> > > the sequence of shutting down the three servers
> > > in case of a power outage. But, alas, no control of
> > > their reboots once power is re-established.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a simple technique of e.g.
> > > implementing a 0 min. winboot delay on server
> > > 1, a 1 min. delay on server 2 and a 2 min. delay on
> > > server 3. The three servers are pretty identical
> > > hw-wise so if booted at the same time, the boot
> > > time is almost identical for the three Compaq
> > > proliant servers right now. It is rather important
> > > for my system, that the boot sequence is controlled.
> > >
> > > My local IT guys have no proposals except doing
> > > manual reboots.
> > >
> > > Kind Regards
> > >
> > > Erik Malte Rasmussen,
> > > LEO Pharma
> > > mail: erik.rasmussen@(deletethis)leo-pharma.com
> >
> > Forget what I said in my first post. All you need to do is
> > to modify c:\boot.ini for each of your servers, and set
> > timeout=xxx to whatever value is required.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Couldn't Erik also right-click on the My Computer desktop icon, select
> Properties, go under Advanced and change the delay of selecting the OS
> entry? This can be set from 0 to 999 seconds. This probably does the
> same thing you mentioned but without having to edit files (and possibly
> end up with a bad boot.ini file).
>
>
>