{"id":103,"date":"2007-02-20T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/more-with-process-and-service-uptime\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:09:45","slug":"more-with-process-and-service-uptime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/103\/more-with-process-and-service-uptime\/","title":{"rendered":"More with Process and Service uptime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most things scripting, there's usually more than one way to do things. I thought I had a nice solution<\/a> for getting service uptime via WMI. But alas, there is an even easier way. PowerShell has a ConvertToDateTime method which will convert a WMI time to a standard date time format.<\/p>\n

$p=ps winlogon
$p=get-wmiobject -query \"Select * from win32_process where name='winlogon.exe'\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking $p.CreationDate will yield something like this:<\/p>\n

20070217093525.074160-300<\/span><\/p>\n

The ConvertToDatetime method can be seen here:<\/p>\n

PS S:\\PoSH > $p.ConverttoDatetime <\/span><\/p>\n

Script : [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDateTime($args[0])
OverloadDefinitions : {System.Object ConvertToDateTime();}
MemberType : ScriptMethod
TypeNameOfValue : System.Object
Value : System.Object ConvertToDateTime();
Name : ConvertToDateTime
IsInstance : False<\/span> <\/p>\n

So to use it, all I have to do is specify the WMI Time as the argument:<\/p>\n

PS S:\\PoSH > $p.ConverttoDatetime($p.CreationDate) <\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:35:25 AM<\/span> <\/p>\n

Isn't that much easier than my convoluted string function? I can use this in its place and modify my script.<\/p>\n

Here's the final, updated code that will work using WMI.<\/p>\n

$computer=\".\"
Write-Host -fore Green -back Black $computer.ToUpper()
$s=Get-WmiObject -query \"Select name,processId,state from Win32_service where state='running'\" -computer $computer
foreach ($item in $s) {
$query=\"Select handle,creationdate from win32_process where handle='\"+$item.ProcessID+\"'\"
$p=Get-WmiObject -query $query -computer $computer
$start=$p.ConvertToDateTime($p.CreationDate)
$u=(get-date).Subtract($start)
Write-Host $item.Name `t $u.Days day $u.hours hours $u.minutes minutes and $u.seconds seconds
}<\/span><\/p>\n

As written, it will connect to the local computer, but you can specify a remote computer name.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: PowerShell<\/a>, WMI<\/a>, Scripting<\/a>, Services<\/a>, Processes<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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