uptime function in Dashboard

Hello,

How RDM is supposed to get the uptime?

Regards

Hi David. I left you a PM.

Hello,

Sorry I missed the notification. Thank you. I will add this to our todo list. Maybe some dynamic information. I have to figure how I could support uptime.exe directly in the application.

Regards

Not sure I'm following the part about supporting uptime.exe. That's a command line utility that Microsoft stopped maintaining years ago and is a little buggy when used against newer Windows operating systems but the functionality is great and the response is quick. It uses event log entries, etc to determine system uptime and key events.

Hello,

We can't package uptime.exe in RDM. We have no right to do that. We need to find a way to do the same thing without the executable.

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Powershell can get the uptime of system, querying WMI. Here's a sample script of how to do it:

<#

.SYNOPSIS

Demonstrates uptime using WMI

.DESCRIPTION

This script used Win32_ComputerSystem to determine how long your system

has been running. This is a rewrite/improvement of sample 3 at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394591(VS.85).aspx.

.NOTES

File Name : Get-UpTime.ps1

Author : Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk

Requires : PowerShell V2 CTP3

.LINK

Script Posted to:

http://www.pshscripts.blogspot.com

Original sample posted at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394591(VS.85).aspx

.EXAMPLE

PS c:\foo> .\Get-UpTime.Ps1

System Up for: 1 days, 8 hours, 40.781 minutes

#>

##

# Start of script

##

# Helper Function - convert WMI date to TimeDate object

function WMIDateStringToDate($Bootup) {

[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeconverter]::ToDateTime($Bootup)

}

# Main script

$Computer = "." # adjust as needed

$computers = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computer $computer

foreach ($system in $computers) {

$Bootup = $system.LastBootUpTime

$LastBootUpTime = WMIDateStringToDate($Bootup)

$now = Get-Date

$Uptime = $now - $lastBootUpTime

$d = $Uptime.Days

$h = $Uptime.Hours

$m = $uptime.Minutes

$ms= $uptime.Milliseconds

"System Up for: {0} days, {1} hours, {2}.{3} minutes" -f $d,$h,$m,$ms

}

# End script

Great. That's what I mean by a dynamic information.

Regards

Any update on adding an uptime function to RDM ?

Thanks

Not yet.

Regards