A colleague of mine (Terry Taylor) just launched into blogging with a really solid posting on how to automate the deployment of cross platform agents available at: http://ubergnosis.com/2011/07/11/automated-cross-platform-agent-install-and-discovery/ https://www.catapultsystems.com/ttaylor/archive/2011/07/11/automated-cross-platform-agent-install-and-discovery.aspx His blog links are: http://ubergnosis.com/ And replicated to his Catapult blog at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/ttaylor   Great stuff Terry and keep up the blogging!

A little while back I was working with an organization where we put in a batch script which would be called to restart a service using a delay. Over time we found that it would work sometimes but it was not reliable. It appears that issues were occurring with permissions remotely calling batch files. My…