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Re: Getting a Machines Uptime Remotely


From: Steve Friedl <steve () unixwiz net>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:20:46 -0800

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:18:06AM -0500, Holstein, Robert - BLS CTR wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to get the uptime of a Win* machine
remotely using NMAP.  Stealth is not a concern.  I've done it with *nix
based OS'es before using NMAP but never Windows. Can anyone offer some
advice on how to do this using NMAP.  I've tried a couple different
things with no results. 

There are two ways I can think of to get the uptime remotely, though
neither with nmap.

1) via SNMP: the sysUpTime.0 OID is the number of 100ths of a second since
   boot. This has a 497-day limit before the 32-bit counter wraps around,
   but if it's a Windows machine I doubt you'll run into that ;-)

2) I'm sure there's an RPC type query which returns this information, but
   it surely requires a network credential.

Steve

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