Sunday, January 23, 2011

How to check hmc uptime


To check uptime on the hmc.

              ssh into hmc as hscroot
              chhmcusr -u hscpe -t passwd
              chhmcusr -u root -t passwd
              ssh in as hscpe
              lshmc -v
              pesh <sn>,
              su - root
              uptime
            was able to check uptime on both of his hmcs.


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In normal AIX / Linux world you have the uptime command, but within the restricted shell on the HMC code you do not have this command available to you.    There is a way you can calculate this.
 # cat /proc/uptime
178173.89 174911.35
The first number is the number of seconds the HMC system has been up. So you can take that number and convert it to days.
178173/60  for minutes
then divide by 60 again for the number of hours
then divide by 24 which will give you 2.0621875 days

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