server reboot

[Guest Steve]

I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task and I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot or not?

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: server reboot

 

 

"Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message

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I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to

confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task and

I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot or

not?

 

================

 

Run this command from a Command Prompt:

 

net statistics server

 

It will tell you how long the server has been running.

[Guest Steve]

Re: server reboot

 

Ok thanks, is there anything in the event viewer I can look at as well to

tell me of the server rebooted?

 

what i'm doing is creating a utility to allow some folks to look at the

status of servers (database servers and windows server) to get stats on

them, such as when and if it rebooted, SQL jobss, etc. so if there is

something I can read in the eventviewer for this, that would be better then

having to log into 15 or so servers to determine if they rebooted or not

every week.

 

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message

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>

> "Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message

> news:%23ETT$IP2HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to

> confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task and

> I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot or

> not?

>

> ================

>

> Run this command from a Command Prompt:

>

> net statistics server

>

> It will tell you how long the server has been running.

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: server reboot

 

There are several events clearly visible in the event viewer that

show when a server rebooted. However, a far simpler method

to compile stats is to use the Task Scheduler on each server to

invoke the following batch file:

 

@echo off

echo %date% %time% %ComputerName% Reboot >>

\\CentralServer\SomeShare\%ComputerName%.log

(the second line is one single long line!)

 

Now get your technicians to examine these log files each day.

Very quick, very convenient!

 

 

"Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message

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> Ok thanks, is there anything in the event viewer I can look at as well to

> tell me of the server rebooted?

>

> what i'm doing is creating a utility to allow some folks to look at the

> status of servers (database servers and windows server) to get stats on

> them, such as when and if it rebooted, SQL jobss, etc. so if there is

> something I can read in the eventviewer for this, that would be better

> then having to log into 15 or so servers to determine if they rebooted or

> not every week.

>

> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message

> news:%23Vc0bkP2HHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>>

>> "Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message

>> news:%23ETT$IP2HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>> I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to

>> confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task and

>> I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot or

>> not?

>>

>> ================

>>

>> Run this command from a Command Prompt:

>>

>> net statistics server

>>

>> It will tell you how long the server has been running.

>>

>

>

[Guest Chris]

Re: server reboot

 

As another thought i use bginfo in the startup menu. You can quickly see the server boot time from this.

 

hth

 

Chris

"Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message news:%23ETT$IP2HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task and I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot or not?

[Guest John Toner [MVP]]

Re: server reboot

 

In the eventviewer, you can look at the EventLog events. These typically

will tell you when a server goes down (Eventlog server stopped) and when the

server is back up (EventLog service started).

 

You could also use uptime.exe to accomplish this. See the following for KB

for details:

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232243

 

Regards,

John

 

Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner

 

"Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message

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> Ok thanks, is there anything in the event viewer I can look at as well to

> tell me of the server rebooted?

>

> what i'm doing is creating a utility to allow some folks to look at the

> status of servers (database servers and windows server) to get stats on

> them, such as when and if it rebooted, SQL jobss, etc. so if there is

> something I can read in the eventviewer for this, that would be better

then

> having to log into 15 or so servers to determine if they rebooted or not

> every week.

>

> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message

> news:%23Vc0bkP2HHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> >

> > "Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message

> > news:%23ETT$IP2HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> > I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to

> > confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task

and

> > I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot

or

> > not?

> >

> > ================

> >

> > Run this command from a Command Prompt:

> >

> > net statistics server

> >

> > It will tell you how long the server has been running.

> >

>

>

[Guest Steve]

Re: server reboot

 

bgInfo?? what's that? Do you run that from the command line?

"Chris" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message news:%230lh2bR2HHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

As another thought i use bginfo in the startup menu. You can quickly see the server boot time from this.

 

hth

 

Chris

"Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message news:%23ETT$IP2HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task and I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot or not?

[Guest Chris]

Re: server reboot

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/BgInfo.mspx

"Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message news:ehpQ%23Db2HHA.3640@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

bgInfo?? what's that? Do you run that from the command line?

"Chris" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message news:%230lh2bR2HHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

As another thought i use bginfo in the startup menu. You can quickly see the server boot time from this.

 

hth

 

Chris

"Steve" <Steve@community.nospam.com> wrote in message news:%23ETT$IP2HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

I have servers that get rebooted on a weekly basis, it is now my task to confirm that the servers did in deed reboot. Now I just got this task and I'm no server admin, so how can I tell if a server did actaully reboot or not?