Time Sync Monitoring Tool

9 Aug 2005 1:17 PM

Parvinder

Is there a Utility that will monitor the synchronization of time on all the
Windows 2000/2003 servers ?

9 Aug 2005 10:03 PM

ohaya

Parvinder wrote:

>
> Is there a Utility that will monitor the synchronization of time on all the
> Windows 2000/2003 servers ?

Hi,

You can use NTP to synch the Windows machine to an AD. It's been
awhile, but I set something like that up on our test network, where I
had a bunch of Solaris machines synching to a single Solaris machine,
the AD synching to the Solaris machine, and the other Windows machines
all synching to the AD. There's a Usenet newsgroup that is only about
NTP, and there were lots of helpful people on it.

Jim

10 Aug 2005 12:40 PM

Parvinder

Thanks Jim

Actually I am sync'g the time with one of our internal servers. However, I
would like to poll the servers at any given time and see the status of time
sync.

10 Aug 2005 2:27 PM

ohaya

Parvinder wrote:

>
> Thanks Jim
>
> Actually I am sync'g the time with one of our internal servers. However, I
> would like to poll the servers at any given time and see the status of time
> sync.

Parvinder,

Oops. Sorry. I misunderstood the "monitoring" part. So now I have to
ask, what specifically DO you mean by "monitoring" and by "see the
status of time sync"?

Do you just want to check whether each machine is synched, or do you
want to actually want to see what the system time is on each machine?

If the former, and if you installed NTP (I think that there are free NTP
implementations of NTP for Windows), NTP does have a way for you to
check the "status", e.g., what the time source is, how far a machine has
drifted from the source, when the last time was synched, etc.

Jim

10 Aug 2005 2:59 PM

Parvinder

Yes, I would like to get status of time syn among the servers. So, if I was
to designate my DC to be time source and then point all the other servers to
the DC to get time. My real dilemma is to make sure that the time sync is
happening and I need some utility that confirms that.

11 Aug 2005 1:50 AM

ohaya

Parvinder wrote:

>
> Yes, I would like to get status of time syn among the servers. So, if I was
> to designate my DC to be time source and then point all the other servers to
> the DC to get time. My real dilemma is to make sure that the time sync is
> happening and I need some utility that confirms that.

As I mentioned if you got 'real' NTP installed on each of the machines,
NTP includes a utility that will allow you to remotely check the sync
information.

Jim