tarmac terror

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Please bear with me on this one I will try to explain as best as I can.

I have two Windows 2003 based servers, a database server running Oracle 10g (10.1.0) the other which runs a web service to push data out to and recover data from 35 remote staging servers by polling each of them once every hour.

The second server acts also as a web server serving up an interface which allows role based access to the data in the Oracle back end.

My problem is this - I administer all these servers remotely but the webserver is causing me a problem. If this server needs to be restarted I need to log on to enable the web service to be started.

My question essentially is, is there a means by which I can restart windows 2003 server and force a webservice to start without the need to be logged on to the server.

Thanks in advance,
TT

HHxx

Can you define what you mean by a "web service"?

Is this a custom application?

tarmac terror

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A web service = a platform independent protocol for exchanging data between applications. In this case a custom application written in Java.

TT

TopBanana

To restart the machine:
Open a computer management console, right-click on root note, connect to another computer. Right-click on root again, choose properties, advanced, startup and recovery. There is a button in the bottom-right to restart.
You can also use the SHUTDOWN command, i.e. SHUTDOWN -r -f -m machinename

You seem to have got the definition of web services wrong. A web service is an interface something else can call to pull information from, it can't ever 'push'. Is it a Windows service you need to start, or an interactive application, or an IIS website?

HHxx

I'm no expert on Java, but I'll try and answer...

I would think you could do this by converting the Java application to run as a Windows Service. You could then run this as a restricted user for a bit more security.

If the application is/needs interactive(ion), you would probably need to re-code it? Write another app as an interface to the Windows Service to interact?

Iirc, I heard something about jvm shuts itself down when a user logs out regardless of another app using it in a different session? Can't confirm this from experience..

Another possible way I thought of, is for Windows to auto login and run the application. Not very secure though.

hth

David_Wallis

How do you start your web service?

I can probably knock a script up that can do this.

Mail me at david@wallis2000.co.uk

David

tarmac terror

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the system is an inherited bag of nails.

Banana - you are quite right the web service is only used to bring back data. Push merge replication is used to distribute data to the staging servers.

David - I will drop you an email probably over the weekend with details.

Thanks all.

TT

andys

Are you using WDSL and UDDI?

TopBanana

Does *anyone* actually use UDDI?

tarmac terror

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andys

Yep thanks for spotting the typo