[Joseph4200]

Hey guys currently my BES is running low on memory and we are subjected to reboot once a week to get it back in line.

Our BES is Lotus Domino 4.0 and its on service pack 3 hotfix 4

SQL and Lotus domino reside on the same BES so thats why our resources are getting chewed up.

We are currently working on a project to aleve this but it will be atleast a few weeks before it can be implemented.

The question i have though, does anybody know hot to make a macro that can run in the scheduled tasks that shuts down the BES services, SQL services and Domino services and then restarts them on a weekly basis?

We would rater do this then totally restart the server. But none of us are really good at writing a script.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[Sagz]

I want to assume that your SQL is running on a seperate box than your BES box. We do weekly reboots each data center has a different night.
The scripts are easy to write here is a pretty good reference guide labmice.techtarget.com/articles/batchcmds.htm You can google and find more info on domino or sql maint, also go to lotus' web page.


Here are some samples to get you started.

You should break them all up into different .cmd files and then use a at commands to schedule them.

To stop services use this command:
Net Stop "<Service name you want to stop>"

After you stop the services:
Use NSD -kill to ensure the domino portions has stopped

To reboot box

C:\windows\System32\tsshutdn.exe 30 /SERVER:<Server Name> /REBOOT /DELAY:30 /V

Maint on the box like fixup updall and compact

<Change to drive of data>
f:
cd\lotus\domino\data
ncompact mail1.box -t -U -c >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
ncompact mail2.box -t -U -c >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
ncompact log.nsf -T -U -c >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
ncompact BES\BlackBerryOutbox.nsf -U -c >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
ncompact BES\BlackBerryProfiles.nsf -U -c >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
ncompact BES\BBdir.nsf -U -c >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
ncompact BES\BBstats.nsf -U -C >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nupdall BES\BlackBerryOutbox.nsf -R >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nupdall BES\BlackBerryProfiles.nsf -R >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nupdall BES\BBdir.nsf -R >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nupdall BES\BBstats.nsf -R >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nfixup BES\BlackBerryOutbox.nsf  >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nfixup BES\BlackBerryProfiles.nsf >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nfixup BES\BBdir.nsf >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log
nfixup BES\BBstats.nsf >> d:\scripts\srvmaintp.log

[Joseph4200]

Thanks man!

But no our SQL is running on the same box,

We are currently looking into buying a redundancy server and a stand alone SQL server to help resolve this issue.

[Sagz]

Most of your memory issues are most likely coming from having SQL on the same box.

You can add SQL shutdown in there by using the service shut down command to tell the SQL service to stop.

How much memory do you have on your current server?

[Joseph4200]

we have 3 gigs of memory and it fills up pretty fast.

Yeah we definately need to put SQL on its own server, we are just waiting on approval