Determine how long a use has been logged in XP (maybe by SCCM?)

[TEEZLE]

Basically, need a way to find out how long a user has been logged into a Windows XP system. We want to reboot them if it has been longer than 30 days. It would be great to be able to push a script from SCCM and have it report some how. Or is there a SCCM report that I can run (I can't seem to find it if there is).

Thanks in advance.

 

[yinan]

Why not just push out a scheduled task to reboot every machine once a month?

 

[RebateMonger]

Although it's not exact, is it possible to run 30 days in XP without Windows Updates requiring a reboot?

 

[TEEZLE]

Although it's not exact, is it possible to run 30 days in XP without Windows Updates requiring a reboot?

That's exactly what I said. But for some reason, this gov. agency is asking for this report/status?!?!

 

[RebateMonger]

You used to be able to read "Up Time" via the command line "Systeminfo" command, too. With a script, you could run the command, interpret the result, and tell the PC to reboot if the result exceeds a month.

systeminfo|find "Up Time"

Or something like that. In Win7, I see that a Systeminfo searched for "Boot Time" will give you when the last reboot occurred.

 

[lstratos]

hell yeah, if you surf porn you'll need to reboot often.. i have systems here thats been running for 3-4 months.. its xp system.. dont need to reboot it except for patches and stuff..

drop to command, run systeminfo | more and it'll show system up time..

systeminfo /s <machine name> gives you remote users...

you can write a little perl script that reads the machine up time and do a shutdown -r -m \\ <machine> name if it's over 30 days, etc..

 

[lstratos]

actually maybe I dont know, you asked for logged in time.. thats different from up time... I dont know how to figure out logged in time because I never had to.. if i find out ill let you know.. maybe someone else here knows..

 

[TEEZLE]

Thanks for all the info guys. For some reason systeminfo is blocked by polcy, keeps saying access denied. I found the jist of what they are trying to do. Essentially, we do a lot of updates when "no user is logged in" with SCCM. Since the packages only can't run with them logged in, we want a way to log them off (but not reboot because of Safeboot).

I don't think it's all that necessary, but our gov. security guy is pushing us to do it!