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How to Check Up Time of a Server


To check up time for windows server - 
Logon to the Windows server and got to command prompt.
net statistics server
This will provide the statistics of the server since the server last rebooted.


To check up time for Linux Server - 
Logon to Linux server and go to the terminal.
 $ uptime 

 This command also applies to the ESXi servers (if you have taken ssh session or shell to the ESXi host) as they are the Linux flavor.


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