Overview

The System Uptime Event Monitor checks the uptime counter that Windows maintains and alerts you whenever it detects that a system has been rebooted.

Use Cases

• Receiving alerts when systems are restarted.

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Alert With [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the Device Cannot Be Contacted

Use this option to get alerts if FrameFlow could not contact the selected device.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the device has been rebooted

Use this option to get alerts about system restarts.

Include the uptime in all notifications

With this option enabled the system uptime will be included in all alerts and notifications.

Use WMI to retrieve the uptime

By default, the event monitor uses Windows performance counters to collect the data it needs. Performance counters are the most reliable option; however, if the event monitor reports that it is unable to find the required counters you can enable this option to tell it to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) instead.

Authentication and Security

PDH: The account used for authentication must be a member of the Performance Monitor Users group or have admin rights.

WMI: The account used for authentication must be a member of the Performance Monitor Users group and the Distributed COM Users group or have admin rights.

Protocols

WMI

Click on a protocol to learn more. For Windows-based systems, we recommend using PDH whenever possible.

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Uptime	The time since the system was started, measured in seconds.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.