How to find computer's uptime/boot time by command & script? - How to find server uptime time in bulk by power-shell script

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Method 4 - From Event Viewer.

Step 1 - Open Event viewer from computer management or open Run and type “eventvwr”

Step 2 - Expand Windows logs and select system.

Step 3 - Click on Filter Current Log.. from right action panel. And type 6005 in field - <All Event IDs>

Step 4 - See latest log date and time, This date and time is the system boot time/uptime since.

 

Method 5 -You can also get this from WMI scripting. See below microsoft link for details.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2005/08/02/how-can-i-determine-the-uptime-for-a-server/

 

Method 6 -From Powershell scripting, ANd here you can get uptime information, When you need for many server, And uptime will generate in a txt file.

Step 1 - Download uptime.ps1 by click here, Or use below script code and create a .ps1 file and put this in a folder. Here for example making a folder name - UptimeReport in C: drive

Script code -

$serverlist = "C:\uptimereport\serverlist.txt"

$reporttextfile = "C:\uptimereport\uptime.txt"

out-file -filepath $reporttextfile -append -InputObject ("Uptime Report Run " + (Get-Date))

foreach ($server in Get-Content s1.txt)

{

$ping = gwmi win32_pingstatus -f "Address = '$server'"

if($ping.statuscode -eq 0)

{

   $wmi = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $server -Query "SELECT LastBootUpTime FROM Win32_OperatingSystem"    

   $now = Get-Date    

   $boottime = $wmi.ConvertToDateTime($wmi.LastBootUpTime)

   out-file -filepath $reporttextfile -append -InputObject ("Uptime for " + $server + ": " + ($now - $boottime))

}

else

{

   out-file -filepath $reporttextfile -append -InputObject ("Uptime for " + $server + ": Host offline")

}

}

Step 2 - Edit some lines from above script.

Change “C:\uptimereport\serverlist.txt” path to your server list file path, in which .txt file you can put multiple server list in below format.

Net-Server01

Net-ServerDC02

Net-SQLRS01

 

Change “C:\uptimereport\uptime.txt” path to your result file path, Where you can get uptime report of all your server.

Step 3 - Open PowerShell and run the .ps1 file then you will get your all server uptime report in above path of step 2 line 2.

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