Importance of Time Synchronization

mpriess · Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 112 Location: Arizona, USA

Hi Alex,

My company has a client in Japan. So, we set their web servers to reflect the current time in Japan. How will that affect event log monitoring?

Thanks,
Mark

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12807 Location: USA

It can be a problem. As I understand HM on system with US time (system A) monitors Event Log on system with Japanese time (system B)?
Lets examine Situation:
- now 2:00am on system A;
- last test was performed at 1:50am;
- HostMonitor sends request to system B to get all events those ocurred after 1:50am.
Problem is current time on system B 8:00PM, system will return list of events those ocurred long time ago. So, HostMonitor will display old event log records again and again

Probably HM need some option, like "Difference in time". It needs this options for each "Event Log" test (you can test different systems). H'm, there no space in Test Propertis dialog for this option. I need good idea...

Regards
Alex

mpriess · Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 112 Location: Arizona, USA

Thanks for the reply Alex,

How about an option that let's you select the "Time Zone of remote system" and then have hostmonitor adjust the time internally.
Would that be possible? Thanks for your consideration.

jricha34 · Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 59 Location: USA

I agree, telling it to find out the TZ from the client would be good.