At the 
:
Susan
Bulloch did a session named "Server
Maintenance Toolkit" about how to keep your Domino servers running,
how to automate the necessary maintenance task and how to prevent errors
before they occur.
In the course of the session, one question
occured:
Can program documents
start Windows batch files?
My definitiv answer is: "Yes, they
can." But not directly.
The little trick is to call CMD,exe with
the /c parameter followed by the complete file name and path of the batch
file (.bat or .cmd file). If the file name or path contains space characters,
include it in double quotes.
Example of a program document:
This way, you can even stop the Domino
service, do something (like running some Domino tasks or copying some files),
while the server is down, and restart the Domino service again.
Example batch file:
@ECHO OFF
REM variable parts; to be adapted for each installation
SET DOMINO_SERVICE=Lotus Domino Server (notesdomino6)
SET DOMINO_PROGS=C:\Programme\Domino6
SET DOMINO_DATA=D:\Notes\Domino6
SET BATCH_FILE_LOG=%DOMINO_DATA%\weekly-maintenance.log
REM log settings
ECHO Weekly maintenance started >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
date /t >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
time /t >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO DOMINO_SERVICE: %DOMINO_SERVICE% >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO DOMINO_PROGS: %DOMINO_PROGS% >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO DOMINO_DATA: %DOMINO_DATA% >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO. >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO Stopping Domino service >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
net stop "%DOMINO_SERVICE%" >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO Compacting system databases >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
"%DOMINO_PROGS%\ncompact" -c -i names.nsf
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
"%DOMINO_PROGS%\ncompact" -c -i admin4.nsf
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
"%DOMINO_PROGS%\ncompact" -c -i events4.nsf
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
REM Domino 7+ only
REM "%DOMINO_PROGS%\ncompact" -c -i ddm.nsf
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO Refreshing view in Domino Directory >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
"%DOMINO_PROGS%\nupdall" -R names.nsf >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO Save log database (4 generations) >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
DEL "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.4" >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
REN "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.3" "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.4"
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
REN "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.2" "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.3"
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
REN "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.1" "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.2"
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
REN "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf" "%DOMINO_DATA%\log.nsf.1"
>>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO Restarting Domino service >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
net start "%DOMINO_SERVICE%" >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO. >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO Weekly maintenance completed >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
date /t >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
time /t >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
ECHO. >>"%BATCH_FILE_LOG%"
