action pack for IIS

[Rajeshwari560]

Action pack for run iisreset.exe

[Gregg Stewart]

Hello,

 

This was created under the CA Automation community. I believe you are asking about an action in Release Automation that will give you the same functionality as iisreset.exe so I have moved this question to the Release Automation community. In regards to your question, I'm not familiar with iisreset.exe. But while searching google for a description of what it does I found many references to iis5 which is pretty old. But it looks like people are saying that it can still be used with iis7. I also found references indicating that it does a few things like stop/start windows services (like w3svc, ftp, iis, ???) and restarts an iis application pool. 

 

Based on this it would sound like you might need to use one or more actions to stop the windows services. And then check the iis and iis7 action packs for actions that will restart the application pool. 

 

Please let us know if this helps or you still have questions/problems.

 

Kind regards,

Gregg

[Walter Guerrero]

What exactly are you trying to run? Are you trying to perform a start/stop command of the IIS server? If this is the case, it is recommended that you use the "net stop WAS and net start W3SVC". This is based off the following recommendation from Microsoft.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732317%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

 

 

As you can see, you will then use the actions marked by the arrows, which will allow you to start/stop/restart the windows service. You could also use the action to check if the service is running, prior to making the correct selection in regards to what to do with the Windows service.

 

Thanks

 

-Walter

[Rajeshwari560]

I know the start, stop,restart window services. If I use those action packs for which are available in service.msc. iisreset.exe is a application file in C:\window\System32\. Place iisreset name in run or search and press enter iisreset  will run stop and start iis related services. I need  which action pack supposed to run or invoke iisreset.exe application under C:\windows\System32 folder.

[Gregg Stewart]

If all you want to do is run iisreset.exe then you can use the action: run command line

 

is this okay?

 

regards,

gregg

[Rajeshwari560]

Thanks. It is working using run command line action

[Leo_Evers]

Hi Rajeshwari560

Please let us know if Gregg's latest reply answered your question. If it did, please mark it as correct. If your question is not answered or you still have additional questions please let us know.

regards,

Leo

[Rajeshwari560]

Yes. It is working now.

[Legacy User]

You can create a custom action using RDK to run iisreset.exe with its input parameters (drop down list):

/RESTART
This option stops, and then restarts all running Internet services.

/START
This will start all Internet services that are set to autostart.

/STOP
This will stop all running Internet services.

/REBOOT
This parameter will restart the computer.

/REBOOTONERROR
This restarts the computer only when an error occurs when trying to start, stop, or restart the Internet services.

/NOFORCE
Do not shut down Internet services on failure to stop them gracefully.

/TIMEOUT:val
This allows you to specify the timeout value in seconds waiting for a successful stop of Internet services. On expiration of this timeout, the computer can be restarted if the /REBOOTONERROR parameter is specified. The default value is 20 seconds for restart, 60 seconds for stop.

/STATUS
This displays the status of all Internet services.

/ENABLE
This enables the Restart API for Internet services.

/DISABLE
This will disable the Restart API for Internet services.