Uptime.exe Reporting Error

[Guest John Bradbury]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Re: Uptime.exe Reporting Error

 

 

Thanks for all your help