How to monitor a server reboot

Often when restarting a server its nice to get a complete timeline of when the server went down and subsequently comes back up. I found this script a while back but found it lacked the later port 3389 to enable remote desktop again. I editted the following script from eric and have been using it for a very long time now.

http://www.ericwoodford.com/use_ping_to_notify_when_server_reboots

I have modified it slightly to include a program called portqry, when a server is restarted it monitors ping responses until the server goes down. It then continually pings the server until it gets a response. Once a responce on icmp is received it will query port 3389 (remote desktop) until it gets a response indicating the server is now ready to be logged into again.

you can either type rebooter “servername” or simply type rebooter and the program will ask you for the servers name.

After the jump is the code, and the zip file i have uploaded packaging it all together.

The script is available here with all the neccessary batches/programs, best to extract them to your %windir%\system32 where they can be accessed from cmd.

http://www.4shared.com/file/64988601/c29bd123/rebooter.html

echo off
CLS
Set A=0
Set ServerName=%1

if not ‘%1′==” goto ass1
Set /p ServerName=[What is the server name?]
if not ‘%ServerName%’==” goto ass1
echo Failed to get Server name..
Goto :End

ass1
Title Checking %servername%
Echo Checking Server %ServerName% for response
echo Check # _
ass1a
ping %ServerName% > %servername%-results.txt
find /C “Request timed out” %servername%-results.txt > %servername%-fresults.txt

for /F “skip=1 tokens=1,2 delims=:” %%a in (%servername%-fresults.txt) DO (
if NOT “%%b”==” 0″ goto :TimedOut
cls
Echo Checking Server %ServerName% for response
echo Check # %A%
Set /A A+=1
Goto ass1a
)
:TimedOut
Set DownTime=%TIME%
Title %servername% DOWN
Echo Server Down %DownTIME% Passes: %A%
Set B=0
ass2
ping %ServerName% > %servername%-results.txt
find /C “Request timed out” %servername%-results.txt > %servername%-fresults.txt
for /F “skip=1 tokens=1,2 delims=:” %%a in (%servername%-fresults.txt) DO (
if “%%b”==” 0″ set uptime=%time% & set c=0 & goto :BackUp
CLS
Echo Checking Server %ServerName% for response
echo Check # %A% – Server Down: %DownTime%
Echo Waiting For Server to come up: %B%
Set /A B+=1
Goto ass2
)

:BackUp
Title %servername% Pinging
cls
Echo Checking Server %ServerName% for response
echo Check # %A% – Server Down: %DownTime%
echo Server Pinging Again: %uptime% – Passes: %B%
Echo Checking rdp port:
portqry -n %servername% -q -e 3389
Set /A C+=1
if %errorlevel% NEQ 0 goto :backup
del %servername%-fresults.txt
del %servername%-results.txt
cls
Title %servername% UP
Echo Checking Server %ServerName% for response
echo Check # %A% – Server Down: %DownTime%
echo Server Pinging Again: %uptime% – Passes: %B%
echo RDP available @ %time% – Passes: %C%
@echo.
Echo Server down @ %downtime% Service restored @ %time%
pause
:End