[Nagiosplug-help] how to confirm that time is within limits on Windows server?

[Lylex Ryan]

Thanks to all who replied.    I couldn't get the suggested check_time.vbs to work, perhaps because I needed an NTP client.  But that led me to check_ad_time.vbs which checks Windows time against the domain controller.  Seems to be working well.

....Lyle


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From: Lylex Ryan <lylexryan at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:59 PM
Subject: how to confirm that time is within limits on Windows server?
 

We've been bitten badly recently with time being way off on Windows 2003 & 2008 servers.  I was checking that the ntp client service was running, which it was, but the actual time on the server was way off.

How can I check that the actual time is within tolerance compared to either the Domain Controller or the Nagios server?

We've given up on running the Windows NTP client, and now run the Windows Time service against the Domain Controllers.

I looked at check_daytime.pl on the Nagios server side, but it doesn't look like we're about to install Simple TCP/IP Service for security and other reasons.

Thanks for any advice....Lyle Ryan 
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