Sassan.Tat Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hello world, please help me! Situation: We are running a Retrospect Server Version 7.5.6.105 under Windows XP and backup several Clients running Retrospect Client version 6.1.130 on servers (PowerMac only) under Apple MacOS Server 10.39, 10.47 or 10.48 and on several workstations (PowerMac and Intel) under 10.48. Problem: From time to time - we did not figure out how or when - the Retrospect client is not reachable anymore and the server says "client reserved" - but it is not. After manually launching the Retrospect Client application and manually turning it off and on again everything works just fine. Solution: Because we don't know why the clients seems to "crash something" we want to stop (aka "turn off") and start (aka "turn on") the clients by script each night via a cron job. Help wanted: What AppleScript- or Python- or Shell- or whatever could do such a job? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Sassan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve3 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 I don't run into "Reserved" issues, but there is a known issue where they'll turn off under some wireless networking configurations... sorry, I don't have the detailed URL handy. Anyway, I've been using the following AppleScript to turn them back on- it should be easy for you to add the off and delay commands for your needs: Code: tell application "Retrospect Client" to activate delay 1 tell application "System Events" click radio button "On" of radio group 1 of window 1 of process "Retrospect Client" end tell delay 2 tell application "Retrospect Client" to quit I use the following as a Send Unix Command from Apple Remote Desktop to do the same: Code: osascript -e 'tell application "Retrospect Client" to activate' -e 'delay 3' -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e ' click radio button "On" of radio group 1 of window 1 of process "Retrospect Client"' -e 'end tell' -e 'delay 2' -e 'tell application "Retrospect Client" to quit' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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