Here is a script I use to check system up time. You can specify a remote server as an argument and it will remotely check the uptime for that server. This goes into the perfmon stats and gets the information from there.
Keith ----------------------cut here------------------------------------- #!c:/perl/bin # ******************************************************************** # * SystemUpTime.pl * # * Copyright (C) 1998 by Jutta M. Klebe 010398 JK * # * All rights reserved. LU: 250898 JK * # ******************************************************************** # * $Author:: Jmk $ * # * $Date:: 25.08.98 23:02 $ * # * $Archive:: /Jmk/scripts/saa/SystemUpTime.pl $ * # * $Revision:: 2 $ * # ******************************************************************** use Win32::PerfLib; ($machine) = @ARGV; $perf = new Win32::PerfLib($machine); if(!$perf) { die "Can't open PerfLib of $machine!\n"; } my $objlist = {}; my $system = 2; if($perf->GetObjectList("$system", $objlist)) { $perf->Close(); my $Counters = $objlist->{Objects}->{$system}->{Counters}; foreach $o ( keys %{$Counters}) { $id = $Counters->{$o}->{CounterNameTitleIndex}; if($id == 674) { $Numerator = $Counters->{$o}->{Counter}; $Denominator = $objlist->{Objects}->{$system}->{PerfTime}; $TimeBase = $objlist->{Objects}->{$system}->{PerfFreq}; $counter = int(($Denominator - $Numerator) / $TimeBase ); $seconds = $counter; $day = int($seconds/(60*60*24)); $seconds %=60*60*24; $hour = int($seconds/(60*60)); $seconds %=60*60; $minute = int($seconds/60); $seconds %=60; $backday=localtime(time-$counter); print "\t$counter total seconds\n"; print "\t$day day(s) $hour hour(s) $minute minute(s) $seconds second(s)\n"; print "\tSystem was last started on $backday\n"; last; } } } # ******************************************************************** # $History: SystemUpTime.pl $ # # ***************** Version 3 ***************** # User: Kbm Date: 28.02.2002 Time: 09:02 # Added line to show you what day the system was rebooted. # # ***************** Version 2 ***************** # User: Jmk Date: 25.08.98 Time: 23:02 # Updated in $/Jmk/scripts/saa # fixed bug in Win32::PerfLib module. This showed a bug in this script. # Denominator and Timebase weren't correct. # # ***************** Version 1 ***************** # User: Jmk Date: 26.05.98 Time: 8:20 # Created in $/Jmk/scripts/saa # Retrieve the system up time for any (NT) computer # ******************************************************************** -----------------------------cut here--------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]