ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart

ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart automatically logs off users and restarts terminal servers on a round-robin schedule, by following a hub/spoke model. One server is the controller (hub), which restarts all the member (spoke) servers. Each member server is restarted, in succession, from the controller server.

Rolling Restart restarts terminal servers following a round-robin schedule. Rolling Restart uses a controlling server to restart its member servers. Before a member server is restarted, logons are disabled on it, then Rolling Restart waits until all users are logged off of it before it is restarted. Rolling Restart is fully supported under Citrix and VMware server virtualization products.

Benefits

• Centrally managed solution for standardized terminal server restarts.
• Frees up administrators' time normally spent in scheduling server restarts around users or timeframes.
• Designed for 24x7 environments.
• Silent Mode restarts terminal servers without affecting users.
• Restarts terminal servers on a round-robin schedule,
• Summary emails can be sent listing the servers that restarted or did not restart.
• Looping allows servers that did not restart or are skipped to be retried.
• Restart intelligently, not just on a fixed schedule!
• Avoid problems when using shutdown.exe, tsshutdown.exe, or third-party scripts.