Rebooting SAP Servers using SMS?

When we patch our Windows based servers, we deploy the patches with SMS, then we manually:
- Shutdown all of the SAP services (first ensuring that they are not in use - no automated jobs running, etc.)
- Restart the server
- Start the SAP services
The SAP services/components we have include R/3, BW, HR, ME, EP6, EP7, Solman, Content Server, etc.
Everything runs on Windows and uses MS SQL.
Is it possible to perform the 3 steps listed above using SMS?
Thanks.

Hi Paul,
I think the 2nd step is possible, but this will stop or kill all processes and in the case of SAP you'll be better off making sure all the systems stop properly before restart and also check they start properly after restart.
Regards
Juan

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My best advise is:
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RFCDEST: SAPNET_RTCC
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RFCDEST: SAPOSCOL_SAP_DB
RFCTYPE: T
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RFCDEST: SDCC_OSS
RFCTYPE: 3
RFCOPTIONS: H=/H/10.172.20.115/S/sapdp99/H/194.39.131.34/S/sapdp99/H/oss001,M=001,U=
QAS:
RFCDEST: CONEXION A DEV
RFCTYPE: 3
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RFCDEST: SAPNET_RTCC
RFCTYPE: 3
RFCOPTIONS: H=/H/10.172.20.115/S/sapdp99/H/194.39.131.34/S/sapdp99/H/oss001,M=001,U=
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DEV
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Are we missing anything using these notes or do we have to consider anything else?
Best Regards,
Erik Espinosa

Hi,
you are not changing the SAP System Host name, you are only change the IP address SAP Server.
for that you are only worried about the RFC destination which are created using IP address of host,
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Production.
RFCDEST: CONEXION A QAS
RFCTYPE: 3
RFCOPTIONS: H=10.172.20.14,S=10,M=020,U=EESPINOSAZ,v=E962007D7D3C11AE883C362D16A252D
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RFCDEST: SAPNET_RTCC
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