Big advantage of the PVSS Web Client

[leoknipp]

Yes, the times need to be synchronzied to enable the correct functionality of PVSS.

Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[thalter]

Leopold Knipp wrote:

Yes, the times need to be synchronzied to enable the correct functionality of PVSS.

Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

When will this be fixed? Its not possible to have the clocks synched with PC's outside the local network, or do you know a easy way to do it?

The option to set the time automatically would be nice when connecting.
Or at least a error message, "please set your clock to 14:55 before connecting again", would be helpful.

[leoknipp]

If the times are not synchronized you get log-messages that the times differs xx seconds.

Enclosed you'll find an example for this log-message:
PVSS00ui (3), 2010.09.16 16:20:18.852, SYS, WARNING, 184, The time on and differs approximately 29 sec. Please correct this.

The time synchronization is part of the operating system and has to be configured by the administrator of the hardware/network.

Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[thalter]

Leopold Knipp wrote:

If the times are not synchronized you get log-messages that the times differs xx seconds.

Enclosed you'll find an example for this log-message:
PVSS00ui (3), 2010.09.16 16:20:18.852, SYS, WARNING, 184, The time on and differs approximately 29 sec. Please correct this.

The time synchronization is part of the operating system and has to be configured by the administrator of the hardware/network.

Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

Problem is, on the client I have no access to the log files and just get a empty screen in the browser.
Time synch can only be made in a local network, but not over the internet.

It would be a wonderful tool if you could use it over the internet, but as long as the timesynch problem exists, it can't be used that way.
Even on a local network, it would be helpful when you get the error message in the webbrowser from which you try to connect.

[mkoller]

> Time synch can only be made in a local network, but not over the internet.

Time synchronisation over the internet is common practice and done via the NTP protocol (Network Time Protocol).
"NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols still in use (since before 1985)" source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
See also http://www.ntp.org/
Public available NTP servers are distributed all over the world. For Austria you can use e.g. at.pool.ntp.org for germany de.pool.ntp.org
etc.

[thalter]

I meant to synch between the PVSS-client and PVSS-server, since the time of the PVSS-server is the time which counts for connecting.

[jasondonovan]

One way to sync the time between PVSS servers and local clients is to use a simple batch file DOS command running in a scheduled task, nice and simple.

NET TIME command.
here is an example of how to do this and create in a batch file.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articl ... ttime.html