HD200 - Rebooting From Command Line

[personalt]

With the HD100 there was a mini-application/script I could call to reboot the box. This doesnt seem to work with the HD200

Does anyone have a way to remotely reboot?

My server and extender are the closet and I am controlling via CQC. anytime I reboot the machine the connection drops and I have head down to the closet to reboot.

[cenwesi]

telnet into the hd200 and i believe the login ID=root with no password.
and issue the reboot command at the shell. That worked for me

[jwpicard]

I am assuming you want to reboot your server not the HD200

create a batch file called whatever, mine is called reboot.bat. Inside that put the following command - shutdown -r t 05
the -r tells it to reboot and the t 05 says to wait for 5 seconds. Then just add this as an external command on your menu somewhere.

I also schedule this to run at 7 am becuase I have it on Windows XP and it seems to perform better with a daily reset.

[matt91]

Originally Posted by jwpicard

I am assuming you want to reboot your server not the HD200

I think he means the extender. The server gets rebooted, but then the extender is out of sync, and needs to be restarted too.

[Eckwell]

Originally Posted by cenwesi

telnet into the hd200 and i believe the login ID=root with no password.
and issue the reboot command at the shell. That worked for me

Can you give me the syntax to use telnet in this way? This would be great to set up each time the server reboots (for whatever reason!) WAF would go up a few tenths...

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by Eckwell

Can you give me the syntax to use telnet in this way? This would be great to set up each time the server reboots (for whatever reason!) WAF would go up a few tenths...

[If your HD200's ip was 192.168.1.200]

Start--Run--cmd
telnet 192.168.1.200
root
[NO PASSWORD]
reboot

[cenwesi]

Simple:

meSvr$: telnet 192.168.1.13

Trying 192.168.1.13...
Connected to 192.168.1.13.
Escape character is '^]'.

STP-HD200 login: root

Once you are in... simply issue the command:

meSvr$: reboot now

thats it...

[QueOnda]

Or you can use the Neilm's webadmin and has an option to power off or reboot.

[personalt]

I found a good solution. the file that is attached will script a batch file for reboot the HD200. just edit the ip file with the of your extender(s)

I found the application here, I take no claim to it other then it seems to work good
http://www.techidiots.net/autoit-scripts/telnet-batch

[mangriotis]

Theoretically, by putting telnet_batch2.exe into the startup folder on my WHS machine, this should reboot the HD200 after a restart of the server, correct?

I would like to have the HD200 restart and be "on" and ready after the WHS machine installs updates and reboots (or after any other service interruption or reboot). Will this accomplish that task?

[personalt]

yes... two things to think about are

1. you need is a static ip on the HD200.
2. the sagetv service doesnt start up as quick as the computer so if you star the extender really fast it might not find the sage server. In my pc I ping the server ip for 120 seconds before I reboot the extender. This allows the server time to start sage. I am sure there are other timers but pinging myself works fine.

[mangriotis]

Would I place that ping command within the Function.txt file then?

So, it would look like this:
"root

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 120 > nul
reboot"

Or, should I create a batch file like this,
"ping 127.0.0.1 -n 120 > nul
telnet_batch2.exe"

and put that into my startup folder?

[personalt]

I do it the second way.. the timer is in my batch file that precedes calling telnet_batch2.exe.

[babgvant]

Originally Posted by mangriotis

Theoretically, by putting telnet_batch2.exe into the startup folder on my WHS machine, this should reboot the HD200 after a restart of the server, correct?

items in the startup folder execute when you log on, so if you did this in the admin's account it would reboot the extender each time you started the WHS console.

[mangriotis]

Yeah, I figured this out quickly...

I created a scheduled task that runs a batch file called "rebootHD200.bat". This is scheduled "When my computer starts".

However, it doesn't seem to be executing as expected. I need to look at it a bit further...

[hugenbdd]

Here's how I did it.

I couldn't use VBS sendkey commands as I would not be logged into the server and it can't find the telnet window.

SO, I have had to download and register a dll.
Download the item called w3Sockets
http://www.dimac.net/default3.asp?M=...loadsstart.asp
(Yes, you need to send an email so you can get the DL link).
Extract and register the dll. (I put mine in windows\system32)

regsvr32 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Socket.dll

I have a bat file that stops and starts the SageTV service every night. (see Included File)
Make sure that you have the "logs directory" c:\logs\ etc... or wherever you may change it.

--Restart Bat File--
net stop SageTV >> c:\logs\sagecycle.log 2>&1
net start SageTV >> c:\logs\sagecycle.log 2>&1
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\telnet2.vbs"
--End Restart Bat File--

I have the bat file setup in scheduler to restart at 4:30am every day.

The file telnet2.vbs is a script fie that utilizes the w3Sockets sockets.dll. (See included file) It will login to the ip address given.
Change this to your extender IP address.

Add as many function calls as you need 1 for each IP address of your extenders. I have two HD200 extenders to I have two function calls.
(frebootHD is the function call, the first two lines).

-- start telnet2.vbs --
frebootHD("192.168.1.24:23")
frebootHD("192.168.1.26:23")

Function frebootHD(HOST)
'WScript.Echo HOST
Dim oSocket, iErr, sSocketText
sSocketText = ""
Set oSocket = CreateObject("Socket.TCP")
oSocket.DoTelnetEmulation = True
oSocket.TelnetEmulation = "TTY"

'oSocket.Host = "192.168.1.24:23"
oSocket.Host = HOST

oSocket.TimeOut = 5000
On Error Resume Next
oSocket.Open
WScript.Sleep 500
sSocketText = oSocket.GetLine

iErr = Err.Number
'WScript.Echo Err.Number
If iErr = 0 Then
'WScript.Echo "Logging In!"
sSocketText = oSocket.GetLine
oSocket.SendLine "root"
WScript.Sleep 500
sSocketText = oSocket.GetLine
oSocket.SendLine "reboot now"
WScript.Sleep 500
sSocketText = oSocket.GetLine
End If

oSocket.Close

End Function

--end telnet2.vbs--

This works well for if you use the Windows MCE remote as now you don't have to keep the standard remote around to power on the HD200 after a restart of the services.

If found most of the code to do this at http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_38306/tm.htm


Please do not put the -- comments -- in your files, they are just there to mark the code in this post.

Dave

[mangriotis]

Thanks very much Dave.

My batch file now looks like this:
---start rebootHD200.bat---
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 60 >nul
telnet2.vbs
---end rebootHD200.bat---

It works great. Now, whenever the server reboots, my HD200 will come up a couple minutes later (haven't measured the total reboot time yet, but the 60s wait is long enough on my system that the Sage service is already running and it auto-connects).

This improves WAF significantly.

I haven't found a need to reboot the server regularly yet, but it's easy to add that task to the schedule also should it become necessary. Thanks again.

[shadeblue.com]

Originally Posted by personalt

With the HD100 there was a mini-application/script I could call to reboot the box. This doesnt seem to work with the HD200

Does anyone have a way to remotely reboot?

My server and extender are the closet and I am controlling via CQC. anytime I reboot the machine the connection drops and I have head down to the closet to reboot.

Does this utility reboot EXE not work to reboot the HD200?
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/down...do=file&id=251

I don't have a HD200 so I can't test it, but if you give me the exact log of the console displayed when accessing it via TELNET, I can update this program to fix it.

For example, here is how the current version works against the HD100

Login Prompt:

em86xx login:  root<enter>
password: <enter>

If login attempt is invalid, the following is returned by the extender:

login incorrect

If login attempt is successful, the following is returned by the extender:

em86xx[/root]#

To issue a POWER ON instruction, I send this command:

killall waitpower<enter>

To issue a POWER OFF instruction, I send this command:

killall miniclient<enter>

To issue a REBOOT instruction, I send this command:

reboot<enter>

If somebody can update the telnet command syntax for the HD200, I will be happy to update this utility program.

Thanks, SB

[mangriotis]

The syntax for the HD200 is in this thread and is quite simple I think.

root
reboot now

the vbs solution is working for me, and your exectrl seemed to only indicate the HD100, so I didn't try it.

[shadeblue.com]

Originally Posted by mangriotis

The syntax for the HD200 is in this thread and is quite simple I think.

root
reboot now

the vbs solution is working for me, and your exectrl seemed to only indicate the HD100, so I didn't try it.

Do you know if the POWER ON and POWER OFF commands are the same?

Thanks, SB