August 2013 – Thom Rosario

August 9, 2013October 31, 2020

Kill A Windows Process Running on Another Server via Batch

This script accepts the process name as a parameter and then runs in a loop until it kills all of the matching processes. The server name and kill command are global variables set in the calling script.

The whole script is outlined here.

KillProcess.bat

:: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:: This script receives a process name passed as a parameter, and then kills all
:: instances of that process on the target server
:: 
:: Thom Rosario
:: 7.31.2013 -- v1.0
:: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set proc=%~1
:: this is how we grab the passed parameter

:: tasklist lists all the processes running
:: /FI filters for just the process we're looking for
:: find sets errorlevel to 0 if it finds what you're looking for
:: the loop keeps running until it doesn't find the process

:KillLoop
   tasklist /S %srvr% /FI "IMAGENAME eq %proc%" 2>NUL | find /I /N "%proc%">NUL
   if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" (
      echo %proc% found running
      %kill% \\%srvr% %proc%
      timeout /t 1
      goto :KillLoop
   )
echo All %proc% processes stopped
goto :EOF

August 9, 2013October 31, 2020

Kill A Windows Service Script

I created this little tiny script for readability’s sake. I could easily have folded it into one giant batch file, but I like to document what I’m doing, and leave behind a well-polished tool for the people I work with.

This script takes the name of the service as it’s one argument and then issues a polite “stop” command via the sc.exe program. The server is a global variable available from the calling batch file, which is outlined here.

KillService.bat

:: -----------------------------------------------------------
:: This script relies on the global variables of the script 
:: that called it.  It issues a polite "stop" command to the 
:: service and returns control to the calling script.
:: 
:: Thom Rosario
:: 7.31.2013 -- v1.0
:: -----------------------------------------------------------

@echo off
set srvc=%~1

echo - - = = STOPPING %srvr% = = - -
sc.exe \\%srvr% stop %srvc%
timeout /t 3
echo %srvc% stopped on %srvr%
goto :EOF

August 9, 2013October 31, 2020

Kill Notes

This tiny batch file uses a built in tool to kill all running Notes processes.

EAS, Autonomy’s (now an HP company) enterprise archiving product does best if it’s restarted periodically. EAS accesses either the Domino or Exchange mail servers by using Notes and Outlook client code to pull messages out of the mail store and put it aside on a file server. In the case of accessing Domino, simply restarting the EAS server sometimes leaves nlnotes.exe or other Notes processes running.

This script uses the built in Notes debug tool nsd.exe to simply do it’s job — kill all running Notes & Domino processes. It’s one step in a larger set of batch scripts that restart all of the EAS processes, available here.

KillNotes.bat

    1 :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    2 :: This script calls the Notes crash tool (nsd.exe) to kill any open Notes tasks
    3 :: so that the restart of EAS comes up clean
    4 :: 
    5 :: Thom Rosario
    6 :: 8.07.2013 -- v1.0
    7 :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    8 
    9 d:
   10 cd \"Program Files"\lotus\notes
   11 nsd.exe -kill
   12 cd \ZANTAZ
   13

August 9, 2013October 31, 2020

Month: August 2013

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