server reboot

[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?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"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.

 

[Steve]

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.
>

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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
news:uPR23pP2HHA.1124@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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.
>>
>
>

 

[Chris]

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?

 

[John Toner [MVP]]

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
news:uPR23pP2HHA.1124@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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.
> >
>
>

 

[Steve]

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?

 

[Chris]

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?