Monitoring server time sync issues

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Is there possibility to configure the alerting when there is any time sync issue or any probe configuration to find out whenever there is a time change in server.

Environment

Any supported UIM version

Resolution

Below are some options 

1. Monitor Windows Time Service (W32Time)
   Service name: W32Time
   Can use ntservices probe to check if this service is running 
   
   
2. Monitor NTP Sync Failures (Event Logs)
   Source
   Microsoft-Windows-Time-Service
   probe: ntevl 
   
   Determine event ids to monitor related to time sync issues and from which windows event log file to monitor these events .You can configure to monitor those using the ntevl probe
   
   
   
   
   
3. You can deploy ntp_response probe on the ntp server to monitor the ntp server itself