total uptime between shutdowns

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

Your solution will work, of course, only on a tidy shutdown. For unplanned
shutdown (aka - power failure) it will not work.

Ez

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:00 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Is there a tool that will show me the total uptime (availability) of a
> > machine between reboots?
> > That is, if the machine was up for 24 hours and then shutdown for an
> > hour and then up for 23 hours I want an answer of 47.
> >
> > I need this for charge-back of departments using cloud computer which
> > they sometimes turn off.
>
> 1. Maybe the cloud computers' provider has the appropriate tool?
> In this case, if you don't find the tool yourself, you'll have to tell
> us which cloud provider are you working with.
>
> 2. The 'uptime' command gives the uptime since last reboot.  You may
> want to add 'uptime >> /var/log/my_uptimes_log.txt' to the shutdown
> script, and rotate & process, using a custom Perl script,
> the /var/log/my_uptime_log.txt file each month to total the uptime in
> that month.
>
> --- Omer
>
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