Uptime

Ruhann Switching March 30, 2011March 30, 2011 1 Minute

Really sad when you have to reboot a production switch that’s been up for this long. Suppose another question is why was the switch never upgraded? Until now not needed. :)

bry-asw1&gt;show version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2950 Software (C2950-I6Q4L2-M), Version 12.1(9)EA1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 24-Apr-02 06:57 by antonino
Image text-base: 0x80010000, data-base: 0x804E8000
ROM: Bootstrap program is CALHOUN boot loader
bry-asw1 uptime is 7 years, 48 weeks, 6 days, 6 hours, 19 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 12:00:24 SAST Thu Feb 13 2003
System image file is "flash:/c2950-i6q4l2-mz.121-9.EA1.bin"
cisco WS-C2950G-24-EI (RC32300) processor (revision D0) with 20815K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID FOC0633Y2T5
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What is the longest your production devices have been up for?

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Published March 30, 2011March 30, 2011

7 thoughts on “Uptime”

JL says:

March 30, 2011 at 15:36

That’s awesome, I once had to upgrade a Catalyst 4500 with 5+ years of uptime ;)

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Craig says:

March 30, 2011 at 21:14

Aaah, close by one year:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS ™ 1600 Software (C1600-Y-L), Version 11.3(3)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-1998 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 20-Apr-98 19:48 by ccai
Image text-base: 0x08022C58, data-base: 0x02005000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(10)AA, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
ROM: 1600 Software (C1600-BOOT-R), Version 11.1(10)AA, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE
SOFTWARE (fc1)

cs1601MSPCP uptime is 6 years, 50 weeks, 12 hours, 16 minutes

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Mark says:

March 31, 2011 at 17:27

6 years, 12 weeks, 17 hours, 28 minutes

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1. Ruhann says:
  
  March 31, 2011 at 20:58
  
  not bad
  
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johndotyeh says:

May 10, 2011 at 20:11

This was pulled back in 2009. So basically this box was booted up in 1994 and has never been reloaded or lost power.

—————— show version ——————

Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500-ENTSERVICESK9-M), Version
12.2(31)SGA, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2006 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 08-Sep-06 10:13 by ccai
Image text-base: 0x10000000, data-base: 0x118F6934

ROM: 12.2(31r)SGA
Dagobah Revision 226, Swamp Revision 34

xxxxxxxxx uptime is 19 years, 5 weeks, 2 days, 15 hours, 50 minutes
Uptime for this control processor is 1 year, 49 weeks, 5 days, 21 hours, 18 minutes
System returned to ROM by redundancy reset
System restarted at 12:57:24 PST Thu Mar 8 2007
System image file is “bootflash:cat4500-entservicesk9-mz.122-31.SGA.bin”

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1. Ruhann says:
  
  May 10, 2011 at 22:02
  
  that is the longest I have seen. a little bit of a cheat with the inplace upgrade, but still valid :)
  
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  1. Edgar Díaz says:
    
    January 15, 2013 at 04:24
    
    IOS BUG TIME…. could not run 19years from 2006… i mean… it’s just passed 6 years from there up today…..