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The Question is:
I need to generate a daily uptime report for each of my production VMS systems
for management, I can get the last boot time from f$getsyi, but I need to
determine the downtime as well, how can I get the time of the last (first)
shutdown or crash if one or
more occured in the last 24 hours.
The Answer is :
This task usually involves reading the accounting data.
Unfortunately, due the nature of an unexpected system crash,
there is no "system down" record written to accounting, nor
can there be. An orderly shutdown can be dealt with via an
accounting file closure record or similar.
An alternative approach involves an application image running
in a detached process, and specifically an image that periodically
writes a record a file or to a file-backed section or to a remote
"uptime server process". The write will obviously take place at
the granularity of the measurement requirements. When started up,
the (logging portion of the) application looks at the file to
determine the last time the file was written, and uses this to
calculate the system downtime.
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