How to Determine the 'uptime' on an x86 Platform Service Processor (SP or ILOM)

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Solution 1448364.1 : How to Determine the 'uptime' on an x86 Platform Service Processor (SP or ILOM)

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Goal

Fix

Method #2 - From the uptime file in an SP snapshot

Method #3 - From the SP bash prompt (normally restricted to FE use)

Applies to:

Sun Fire X4540 Server - Version Not Applicable and later
Sun Fire X4800 M2 - Version Not Applicable and later
Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server - Version Not Applicable and later
Sun Fire X2250 Server - Version Not Applicable and later
Sun Fire X2270 Server - Version Not Applicable and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

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How to Determine the 'uptime' on an x86 Platform Service Processor (SP or ILOM)

Fix

There are three methods to determine the uptime of the service processor OS.

Method #1 - From the CLI interface

Certain newer verions of the SP firmware will have the uptime shown in the /SP/clock data shown below.

1. SSH to the SP IP address
2. -> show /SP/clock

 /SP/clock

    Targets:



    Properties:

        datetime = Tue Jul  3 21:27:13 2012

        timezone = GMT (GMT)

        uptime = 184 days, 04:37:47  <<<<< The SP OS uptime is shown here.

        usentpserver = disabled

Method #2 - From the uptime file in an SP snapshot

1. Collect and unzip a snapshot from the service processor.
2. Then cd to the spos_info directory
3. View the uptime file

Depending on OS

cat @proc@uptime

or

cat /proc/uptime

The output will show two numbers, the first number is the uptime in seconds.

84905.64 15508.78

84905.64 Seconds = 0.98270416 Days

Method #3 - From the SP bash prompt (normally restricted to FE use)

If a field engineer is already onsite, they can get the uptime info from the sunservice account.

[(flash)root@SPhostname:~]# uptime

19:47:51 up 23:51, load average: 4.93, 5.13, 4.66

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