Guest John Bradbury Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Guys, we run a nightly batch job to check uptime on around 300 servers. Recently we have had a few reporting errors where uptime.exe shows the uptime as say 10 days when we know for a fact the server was rebooted that evening before the batch ran. I know from what little linformation I've been able to find that uptime generates the calculations from the event logs. Any thoughts?
Guest Coraleigh Miller Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 Re: Uptime.exe Reporting Error Hi John, Are your event logs full? If they are then new logs cannot be written and the uptime utility will continue to read the existing older event log files. Coraleigh Miller "John Bradbury" <JohnBradbury@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:29CFE0A8-2EFC-4C94-BBF8-A994D5FA2947@microsoft.com... > Guys, > we run a nightly batch job to check uptime on around 300 servers. Recently > we have had a few reporting errors where uptime.exe shows the uptime as > say > 10 days when we know for a fact the server was rebooted that evening > before > the batch ran. > > I know from what little linformation I've been able to find that uptime > generates the calculations from the event logs. Any thoughts? > >
Guest John Bradbury Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: Uptime.exe Reporting Error I've checked this and new logs are being generated for other events just not the reboots. Given that uptime.exe uses these events [1074 etc] to calculate the uptime this is why the results are inaccurate.
Guest Coraleigh Miller Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: Uptime.exe Reporting Error Check to see if the Shutdown Event Tracker in your group policy on the problem servers (Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates-> System) is disabled, if it is then no event id's for a shutdown or reboot would be recorded, and subsequently uptime.exe would be inaccurate. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293814 Coraleigh "John Bradbury" <JohnBradbury@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DDFB6468-2362-49C5-A0AD-BDC0B5DFBD88@microsoft.com... > I've checked this and new logs are being generated for other events just > not > the reboots. Given that uptime.exe uses these events [1074 etc] to > calculate > the uptime this is why the results are inaccurate. > >
Guest John Bradbury Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: Uptime.exe Reporting Error Thanks for all your help
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