<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>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.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>....Lyle<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Lylex Ryan <lylexryan@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:59 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> how to confirm that time is within limits on Windows server?<br> </font> </div> <br> <div id="yiv787134394"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">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.<br><br>How can I check that the actual time is within tolerance compared to either the Domain Controller or the Nagios server?<br><br>We've given up on running the Windows NTP client, and now run the Windows Time service against the Domain Controllers.<br><br>I looked at <a target="_blank" href="http://check_daytime.pl">check_daytime.pl</a> 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.<br><br>Thanks for any advice....Lyle Ryan <br></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>