Monday 3 December 2012

Server uptime and finding uptime of a system


Server up time is the time when the servers are up and running properly. This requires continuous monitoring and management by server administrators. Server up time depends on data being available to administrators that allows them to foresee potential failures and prevent them. Server up time tools deliver vital data about machine and operating system performance in real-time to administrators, alerting administrators when something goes awry.

How to find server up time of  windows server?

Option 1:

    1.  Go to "Start" -> "Run".

    2.  Write "CMD" and press on "Enter" key.

    3.  Write the command "net statistics server" and press on "Enter" key.

    4.  The line that start with "Statistics since …" provides the time that the server was up from.

  The command "net stats srv" can be use instead.


Option 2:

Uptime.exe Tool Allows You to Estimate Server Availability with Windows NT 4.0 SP4 or Higher

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


In linux you can use the following command to know the uptime of a server

 $ uptime
All most all servers are keeping up in 99.9% .But it needs restarts/reboot in intervals may days,weeks or months

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