HP-UX total uptime

[Greg Stark_1]

Is there a way to determine when an HPUX box was originally built. We have a couple dinasours and no one is really sure when they were rolled out.

Maybe a command or file that would have been there since the OS was installed???

Thanks in advance.

[eran maor · Accepted solution]

Hi

you can look at the /var/adm/sw in the log files of the swinstall or swagent

on the first line you will see when the system was install

[Carsten Krege]

Perhaps you still have the old /var/adm/sw/swagent.log that contains the log from the cold install.

Otherwise I would check the creation date of some devicefiles like /dev/netman or /dev/lan0 that are created at installation time. However these dates can give you a hint only. It doesn't prove that this is the installation date.

Carsten

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
Since there may have been (many) updates of your boxes, the best yould be to give us the model, uname -a may help, and Im sure there are on this forum a few people who could give you an approximate date of production of such box.
Just thoughts...

All the best
Victor

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Also worth a look at is the /etc/shutdownlog

Paula