topic Re: system uptime and max processes in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

system uptime and max processes

Brian Gilliam_1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:53:36 GMT

When running a custom report with "Operating System Details" selected the "system uptime" and "max processes" are very large numbers. Currently system uptime = 1077638319000 and max processes = 4294967295. Also, the system uptime number is the same as the "inventory\system boot up time".
Any ideas as to the meaning of these numbers would be helpful.

Re: system uptime and max processes

David Claypool — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:07:31 GMT

In this case hpSIM is only the "messenger." That is, it's a collector of data, not the source. The source is from the operating system's WMI classes. We don't have a ready document that identifies which exact object is being read, but you can see a bunch of detail by going directly to the Insight agent and poking around in the "System" box items. Another cool tool is a thing called "Scriptomatic" that you can download from Microsoft. It lets you select a WMI class and then it spits out a sample VBscript that enumerates all of the objects in that class.

Re: system uptime and max processes

Rob Buxton — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:24:21 GMT

The Uptime Utility from MS also spits out a reasonably good report of availability based on the Events log.