Checking VMware NTP configuration with Powershell

  3 Responses to “Checking VMware NTP configuration with Powershell”

1. 

   Henk says:

   October 6, 2009 at 21:10

   If only there was a Set-VMHostNtpServer….
   Keep up the goods!
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   Henk says:

   October 6, 2009 at 21:15

   Whoops add-VMHostNtpServer is there to the rescue!
   :)
3. 

   Josh A says:

   October 7, 2009 at 19:09

   I recently needed to check settings as well as determine if the NTPD service was running.

   Get-VMHost | Select-Object Name,@{Name=”NTPServer”;Expression={$_ | Get-VMHostNtpServer}}, @{Name=”NTPRunning”;Expression={($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where-Object {$_.key -eq “ntpd”}).Running}} | Sort-Object -Property “NTPRunning”, “NTPServer”

   I used this to generate a report and added some extra script to fix incorrect settings (also works to change NTP server setting) as well as restart NTPD service if it has stopped.

   I have the full script available at:
   http://day2dayadmin.blogspot.com/2009/10/ntp-powershell-its-about-time.html

   and on the PowerCLI VMware community.