Uptime.exe Reporting Error

[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?

 

[Coraleigh Miller]

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?
>
>

 

[John Bradbury]

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.

 

[Coraleigh Miller]

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
newsDFB6468-2362-49C5-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.
>
>

 

[John Bradbury]

Thanks for all your help