Is there a command line command that can be automated to gracefully stop the the VisualCron Service on a server that has a scheduled weekly reboot?

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Define gracefully :)

Are you talking about stopping the VisualCron service, only after all jobs are not longer running/active? Or literally just stopping the service....

i.e.

net stop visualcron

And more importantly, are you trying to have visualcron stop itself or is something else running the stop command(s) ? (either a local scheduled task or another system running VisualCron sending a reboot server task)

If you can, describe in detail exactly the situation you're trying to allow.

Brian

net stop is what we recommend but we will try to kill all running processes started by VisualCron so we can shut it down completely. So, it is not "graceful" per se.

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Hi there,

I think my question has been answered then. Net Stop is the command, however if there are running tasks, VisualCron will kill those tasks. It will not wait until those tasks have finished processing. The down side is that we have some tasks that take up to 30 minutes to complete, so if the Net Stop command should ever be issued during one of these long jobs there is no guarantee that the job will complete successfully before the server reboots. Am i correct?

Thanks
Sincerely
Tony R

Hi there,

I think my question has been answered then. Net Stop is the command, however if there are running tasks, VisualCron will kill those tasks. It will not wait until those tasks have finished processing. The down side is that we have some tasks that take up to 30 minutes to complete, so if the Net Stop command should ever be issued during one of these long jobs there is no guarantee that the job will complete successfully before the server reboots. Am i correct?

Thanks
Sincerely
Tony R

Yes, if you need a more graceful shutdown please send an email to sales@visualcron.com and we can discuss some alternatives for custom development.

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