Today I updated the NTP, Time Server Monitor, and Scorpion Software’s Firewall Dashboard. There wasn’t any particular problem with NTP or the Time Server Monitor except that the Time Server Monitor is still a beta so I decided to look for an update. I got both updates from Meinberg. The “0.9k” version of the Time Server monitor did not work for me so I went back to the “0.9j” version. The “k” version could not communicate with the NTP server so I updated it to 4.2.0b version. I did not think that was the source for the problem but it was worth a try. Running the NTP server on my W2K3 server has been an experiment. Microsoft includes adequate time server support with its software but I wanted a little more visibility of what was going on. Occasionally in the past IÂ found that the Microsoft version had stopped synching. The time server monitor provides a quick way to check on the time server status but you got to use the open source NTP server.
Finally I got the update key so I could download the latest Firewall Dashboard beta from Scorpion Software. For those of us running Microsoft’s ISA firewall this application gives us a nice summary of possible break-in attempts. The latest upgrade adds a summary of authorized activity. It’s pretty neat!
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