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Hey guys,
Just had a question about starting and stopping DTS with a scheduled task. Ive never tried to create a task for something like that before, but when I point it to the shortcut via exploring directly to it or entering the ".lnk" file directly it still refuses to do anything other than open the executable directly with no GUI. It just has the executable running in the background.
Anyone have an example of how they built a task like that?
Posted : January 24, 2014 1:19 am
Use a batch file with commands like this
net stop "LinkLogicDTS" net start "LinkLogicDTS"
Posted : January 24, 2014 5:06 am
That assumes, of course, that you are running DTS as a service 
Posted : January 24, 2014 7:58 am
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Right, I was actually running the application. But I talked to a tech at GE Friday about it as well and he was trying to turn me away from doing a scheduled restarts like that. Saying that it could interrupt a job that was currently running and corrupt it. My target was to do a restart every 30min or hour if I could.
But using the application, I dont know that its possible to get that automated like Im wanting. Ill just have to keep an eye on it. Users are pretty good about letting me know when things arent going over, but itd just be nice to have it automated.
Thanks for the input though
Posted : January 26, 2014 10:18 pm
I found an appliction a few years ago that was designed for exactly what you want.
It was called DTS monitor from Ignis systems. It is a free utility for monitoring the DTS and notifying you if it is not running.
Here is the link to the application.
http://public.emr-link.com/sup.....q=node/314
There is all the documentation for it in a PDF there also.
Posted : January 26, 2014 11:03 pm
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jkratzer said:
I found an appliction a few years ago that was designed for exactly what you want.
It was called DTS monitor from Ignis systems. It is a free utility for monitoring the DTS and notifying you if it is not running.
Here is the link to the application.
http://public.emr-link.com/sup.....q=node/314
There is all the documentation for it in a PDF there also.
Wow, never even heard of that application before. Ill certainly give it a try.
Thanks
Posted : January 26, 2014 11:05 pm
We took a different route for our DTS as well. We have DTS running in a virtual server and we have a scheduled reboot of the server on Sunday nights. We have an operations department do this as we are part of a hospital that has some additional IT staffing to make this easier. We have tried both the application and the service for DTS and the stability has gotten better over the years but since we started this process we very very rarely have any issues.
Some of the suggestions above sound a little more streamlined and hands off(better) but options are always a good thing.
Posted : January 28, 2014 7:34 am
