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Restart App Pool Remotely

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Mark Buelsing
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8/22/2020 11:26 PM

Is there a way I could make it easy to restart an app pool remotely? I have over 100 DNN installs and they are on several servers. The steps and lookups and passwords it takes to restart a given site is counter-productive. Ideally I'd like to have a page on my admin site that is visible only to my host account with a button on it for each site that could restart it's app pool. How would I make such a button?

Joe Craig
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8/22/2020 11:41 PM
Mark,

There are lots of variations on how to do this, but ...

First of all I'd configure IIS to restart the app pools daily, and at a time that would be less instrusive.

And guessing that most of your site are of interest in their local areas, I'd set that to be 3-4 am in the local time zones.

Assuming that you don't want to rely on the websites being running normally, you'd need to do something like run a PowerShell script on the servers (check that IIS is running, restart it if necessary, recycle the app pool).

I've never tried to run a script on a remote computer, but it can be done (Google "run powershell script on remote computer"). You will need credentials to run the script.

You could set this up to read a file on your local computer and then cycle through the entries. You could schedule that to run at an off time, too.

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