System install time

[Mehul_5]

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

[Devender Khatana]

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

[Devender Khatana]

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

[Joseph Loo]

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.

[R.KrishnaKumar]

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

[Peter Gillis]

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.

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi Mehul,

print_manifest|grep -i created

gives when your system installed time...

Good Luck,

[Venkatesan_5]

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.

[Bejoy C Alias]

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

[Venkatesan_5]

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.

[Muthukumar_5]

You can get this with,

# dmesg | grep Revision

also.

hth.

[Biswajit Tripathy]

"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

[Mehul_5]

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

Regards
Mehul