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Windows: Time service (w32time) peer status

Included in	All Checkmk editions
Source Code License	Open Source
Supported Agents	Windows

This check monitors the configured time synchronization peers in the Windows time service (w32time), by parsing the output of w32tm.

Normally, the check reports the last synchronization time with each peer. Note that the output of w32tm is localized, so the format of the timestamp displayed here will depend on the locale of the Windows service account running the Checkmk agent.

A ruleset, "Windows time service peers" exists where alerting can be configured in multiple ways, e.g., reporting on when a peer's stratum changes, when the last several consecutive attempts to communicate with the peer have failed, or when some number of attempts out of the last (not necessarily consecutive) tries to contact the server have failed. See the help text in the ruleset for more information.

We also recommend using an Enforced Service with this check plugin, when you expect a particular NTP peer to be configured on the host(s).

Discovery

One service is created for each configured w32time peer on the monitored host. If you wish to have one service per peer, use the NTP Discovery ruleset on this host to configure that.