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Reboot Pending [Prompt]

Summary​

The internal Monitor is used for two functions. If a workstation is showing an uptime of over 2 weeks, the monitor automatically triggers the Script User Prompt - Reboot [Reboot, Param, Autofix]. This script will only run when triggered by a monitor.

The Monitor has all of the following conditions that must be met before it kicks off the reboot prompting script:

  1. Computers OS is Windows
    • The OS does not contain 'Server' or 'CE'
  2. The computers uptime is greater than [Property - proval_RebootPromptUptimeDays] # of days
    • OR the Pending Reboot EDF is checked at the machine level
  3. The computer is online
  4. The computer has a idle time of less than 5 minutes (User is Active on the machine)
  5. It has been at least [System Property: RebootPromptDurBetween] hours since the last time the user was prompted (Default of 4 hours)
  6. The Times Prompted EDF does not = Rebooted (Signifying the script issued the reboot to the machine)
  7. The Last Prompted EDF = 0 (Not Set/No Prompts occurred yet)
    • OR the computers uptime is greater than the last time the user was prompted (machine has not been rebooted by the user)

Dependencies​

Script - User Prompt - Reboot [Reboot, Param, Autofix]

Script - Reset Reboot Pending EDFs

Monitor - Reset Reboot Pending EDFs

Target​

This monitor is an automation-driven reboot prompting monitor. This should only be applied to Windows Workstations

Windows Workstations: Should be run on non-servers and must be running Windows. 

Exclusion EDFs​

Exclusion EDFs​

NameTypeSectionLevelDescription
Disable Reboot PromptCheckBoxExclusionsClientFlag this EDF to exclude the client from the solution.
Disable Reboot PromptCheckBoxExclusionsLocationFlag this EDF to exclude the location from the solution.
Disable Reboot PromptCheckBoxExclusionsComputerFlag this EDF to exclude the computer from the solution.