topic Re: System install time in Operating System - HP-UX

System install time

Mehul_5 — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:13:35 GMT

How to know when HP-UX was loaded/installed on the server?

Re: System install time

Devender Khatana — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:31:16 GMT

Hi Mehul,

#swlist -l fileset -a date |grep -e CDE|grep -e '#'

This command will list the CDE file sets which are generally installed only when OS is installed. But the time shown here would be taken from the system clock only.

HTH,
Devender

Re: System install time

Devender Khatana — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:56:05 GMT

Hi Mehul,

The date in this is even more acurate allthough expected to be same in most cases.

#swlist -l fileset -a date|grep -i os-core.ux-core

HTH,
Devender

Re: System install time

Joseph Loo — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:26:32 GMT

hi mehul,

another method:

# swlist -l bundle -a date|grep -i hpux

which should give u the best indication for 11.00 and 11.11.

regards.

Re: System install time

R.KrishnaKumar — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:12:05 GMT

Hi Mehul,

The best way to see the install date is thru the following command,

#swlist -l fileset -a date|grep -i os-core.ux-core

regds..
Krishna

Re: System install time

Peter Gillis — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:57:47 GMT

Hi Mehul,
If you have ignite on your system and was installed with original installation you could try checking out /var/opt/ignite/local/manifest directory for manifest.orig file or such. Dates and times along with system info is given.
Maria.

Re: System install time

Cem Tugrul — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:44:51 GMT

Hi Mehul,

print_manifest|grep -i created

gives when your system installed time...

Good Luck,

Re: System install time

Venkatesan_5 — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:42:07 GMT

hi....

all the fileset and core will show the generated dates only but not the installed date in system...

you can check out this...

# more /var/adm/sw/swinstall.log

the very first date is the date of installation...

hope you got your answer...

:)
Venkatesan.

Re: System install time

Bejoy C Alias — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:47:36 GMT

If ignite is installed , u can use 'print_manifest | more' to get ur system info including the date and time of the installation.

Re: System install time

Venkatesan_5 — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:58:30 GMT

hi...

another command u can find out is 'last'...

Use the "last" command. It will show you all reboots and logins since the OS was installed. The first login or reboot listed will be the first one after the OS install. Also, there is a line at the end "wtmp begins . . . ." which is when the file that tracks the reboots and logins was first written. Both of those clues should be only minutes from when the OS load finished.

regds
Venkatesan.

Re: System install time

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:08:49 GMT

You can get this with,

# dmesg | grep Revision

also.

hth.

Re: System install time

Biswajit Tripathy — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:16:33 GMT

"dmesg | grep Revision" will give the date
and time when HP-UX bits were built and NOT
the time when hp-ux was installed on the
machine. If newer filesets have been
installed on the system because of
patches, "swlist" will give the date on that
patch.

One sure way (as far as I know) of finding
out the installation date is to look at the
parameter "install_date" in the file
/var/adm/sw/products/HPUXBaseAux/pfiles/INDEX.
This should give the date when HP-UX was
installed on your system.

- Biswajit

Re: System install time

Mehul_5 — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:11:22 GMT

Thanks guys for quick response. I got the answer from /var/opt/ignite/local/manifest.

Regards
Mehul