Client Management Suite

Is there anyway to schedule a job that just reboots machines that have restart pending = yes ?

Joe.

The Restart Status report pulls a list of GUIDs and other data.  It does this by using the [dbo].[spPMCore_RebootStatusReport7_0] stored procedure.  You can use this stored procedure in the filter definition, creating a cloned stored procedure if needed that references more specific information.

Actually, looking at the stored procedure, using one of the views, vPMCore_ComputersPendingRebootByPackage, might be a lot easier.

If machines require restart after installing updates using Patch management Solution (via Software Update Plug-in) you may invoke reboot using Default Software Update Plug-in policy or AexPatchUtil.exe tool

Default reboot schedule can be defined in Default Software Update Plug-in policy (All Settings > Agents\Plug-ins > Software > Patch Management > Windows) - in this case machines will be rebooted according to schedule if needed
Another opportunity is to start the following command on your client machines where Software Update Plug-in is installed : ..\Altiris Agent\Agents\PatchMgmtAgent\aexpatchutil.exe /reboot

Reboot will occur only of it is required.

Thanks,
Roman