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I have 3 web servers, and I have little control over the antivirus that keeps restarting the machine at around 1am. This causes a critical program to stop running and I'm only aware of it in the morning. Is there a way for the server to send an email or alert or even create a file on my local machine? All 3 of my web servers don't have internet access, nor do they have access to our SMTP server. They only run on our internal VPN.

Sean
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  • Since they are web servers, you probably can run a scheduled task (like hourly) from another machine (can talk to SMTP server) to check whether they are accessible and send you emails when failed. There wouldn't be a simple solution if your corporate network is too complicated. – Lex Li Sep 05 '20 at 23:53

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I have little control over the antivirus that keeps restarting the machine at around

It's the first time I've ever heard such a story... you should really ask the antivirus team to stop doing that.

Use a startup script in Group Policy so you can send an email, or write something somewhere

Swisstone
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Why don't you proceed according to your 3rd proposal: Write a file on the desktop of your local machine.

Make a scheduled task which will start when your computer starts (that's the name of the task trigger on create new task wizard). I suppose you can provide user and access to
copy wasRebooted \\YourPC\c$\Users\YourUser\Desktop successfully.

In this example whenever your server reboots will copy a file named wasRebooted to your local PC's desktop. You can also append date/time if you like.

Keep a tidy desktop with few icons :)

Krackout
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