532326 - Disable "Shutdown Event Tracker" on windows slaves

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

When bm-vmware12 died today we had to restart several windows slaves after an unclean shutdown. This broke the auto-login process because Windows required a reason for the unexpected shutdown in the Shutdown Event Tracker. We should disable this functionality, so that we don't have to touch every windows slave in the aftermath of an unexpected ESX outage.

Something like this probably
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555541

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I'm writing a few other OPSI packages this week, I may as well grab this.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Attachment: disable the shutdown event tracker

Just ran this through testing on win32-slave21. Turns out it's controlled by a different registry key on Windows 2003, but still easy enough to control. Also, we have to delete the entire "Reliability" key to turn it off.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Comment on attachment 415664 [details] [diff] [review]
disable the shutdown event tracker

(In reply to comment #2)
> Also, we have to delete the entire "Reliability" key to turn it off.

Looks like we're creating that key when we "install" so that's fine by me.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Comment on attachment 415664 [details] [diff] [review]
disable the shutdown event tracker

changeset:   26:adf0da4acda2

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I've set this package to install on all of the Build slaves and the ref platform. Should be picked up by everything in the next 24h or so.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

All the slaves and the ref platform have this now. I didn't deploy on the Talos machines because it's not enabled on XP or Vista by default.

Comment 7

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Moving closed Future bugs into Release Engineering in preparation for removing the Future component.