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how to get total uptime

Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:23 pm

Hi!
On a Mikrotik router with RouterOS v6 I'd like to get total uptime, i.e. how log the device has been powered on since it was purchased.
Is there a way to do get that information?
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Re: how to get total uptime

Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:31 pm

/system/resource print

This will provide information like:

             uptime: 3w5d23h29m44s
            version: 7.7 (stable)
         build-time: Jan/12/2023 07:35:45
   factory-software: 6.44.3
        free-memory: 927.3MiB
       total-memory: 1024.0MiB
                cpu: ARM
          cpu-count: 4
           cpu-load: 3%
     free-hdd-space: 421.6MiB
    total-hdd-space: 512.2MiB
  architecture-name: arm
         board-name: RB4011iGS+
           platform: MikroTik

Or do you mean the total running time (independant of any reboot)?
 
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Re: how to get total uptime

Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:11 pm

Or do you mean the total running time (independant of any reboot)?
Of course I meant the total uptime independent of reboots - "how log the device has been powered on since it was purchased".
I doubt anyone would put a router into usage and never reboot it.
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Re: how to get total uptime

Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:17 pm

Though it does make perfect sense to you, please enlighten me...why do you need that information?
As far as I know it is not available, might be worth to suggest it to MikroTik.
 
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Re: how to get total uptime

Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:24 pm

We have two routers of the same model - one is in production and the other is spare.
We have swapped them a couple of times and now want to get total uptime for each of them.
Each router model has MTBF specified - e.g. 100000 hours at 25 C.
We want to know if any of the routers is approaching MTBF.
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Re: how to get total uptime

Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:57 am

@rpr

do u maybe want, MT to tell u who will be next champion world for football?
 
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Re: how to get total uptime

Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:01 am

Each router model has MTBF specified - e.g. 100000 hours at 25 C.
Are 11 years and 6 months...
11 years...
 
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Re: how to get total uptime

Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:54 pm

The routers were purchased in 2011.
 
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Re: how to get total uptime

Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:59 pm

After 12 years it's time you buy another router, and use the two as spare parts...
 
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Re: how to get total uptime

Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:16 pm

MTBF value is strictly theoretical and it is far from real field. 12 years is good time, I do not see any reason you need to worry or pay additional attention to this device.
 
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Re: how to get total uptime

Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:22 pm

MTBF value is strictly theoretical and it is far from real field. 12 years is good time, I do not see any reason you need to worry or pay additional attention to this device.
I still have on production the devices that I have buyed when I start my WISP on 2007...
Only green capacitor plague and replace "a" with "n", and after replace "n" with "ac", have caused devices substitutions...
:)

I have several dozen of spare parts in stock, but I will only replace the units when they break.
In critical points there is always a redundant one, so even if it were to break in the future, the service would continue to run and would allow me to change it at the very end of its life...

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