Last Visible or Last Successful Heartbeat

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Jean Davis

• November 15, 2021 20:18

Any chance we can get a date/time field in PDQ Inventory for the last time a computer was online or a last successful heartbeat?

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  Colby Bouma

  • November 15, 2021 21:22

  I don't know why it's not available as a column on the main page, but you can create a SQL Report with LastIsOnlineTime.

  SELECT
        Name
      , LastIsOnlineTime
  FROM
      Computers
  WHERE
      <ComputerFilter>

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  Jean Davis

  • November 15, 2021 21:39

  Thank you. When does that timestamp register exactly?

  I have a few servers saying "2021-07-21 06:06:30" which are up and running and PDQ sees them.

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  Colby Bouma

  • November 16, 2021 20:10

  I was wrong about what LastIsOnlineTime represents. I did some experimentation and figured out that it's the last time the target went from offline to online.

  • LastIsOnlineTime - The last time IsOnline changed from 0 to 1
  • LastIsOfflineTime - The last time IsOnline changed from 1 to 0
  • HeartbeatDate - The last time a Heartbeat was sent to the target

  If IsOnline = 1, then HeartbeatDate is the last successful Heartbeat. If IsOnline = 0, then LastIsOfflineTime is when the target went offline. Here's a SQL Report that pulls that logic into 1 field. Technically, when IsOnline = 0, this report is off by whatever your Heartbeat Interval is since it will show the Heartbeat after the last successful one, but hopefully it's close enough. You can remove the extra fields if you don't want them.

  SELECT
        Name
      , IsOnline
      , LastIsOnlineTime
      , LastIsOfflineTime
      , HeartbeatDate
      , CASE
          WHEN IsOnline = 0 THEN
              LastIsOfflineTime
          ELSE
              HeartbeatDate
          END 'Last Heartbeat'
  FROM
      Computers
  WHERE
      <ComputerFilter>

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  Jean Davis

  • November 17, 2021 16:02

  Fantastic! Thanks Colby. This helps alot.

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