Re: [foxboro] I/A Timesync Application

  • From: Joe Talley <joetalley@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:43:13 -0500

Mr. Riccardi,

The answer for question 2 is that in the config file there should be an ip 
address that the app is looking at for the mtk called REF_HOST.

The answer for question 1 is that it should work if the port on the XP machine 
is open to communication.

Thanks,
Joe Talley

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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Joseph M. Riccardi
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 12:55 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [foxboro] I/A Timesync Application

Folks,  
We have the I/A Timesync Application which was installed many moons ago.  I
believe was developed, sold and supported by our neighbors to the North;
Invensys Canada.  This plant site just recently noticed that the time
synchronization package installed on a Solaris AW box is no longer playing
nice with the Windows Master Time Keeper (MTK).  Here is the scenario.  As
system time starts to drift (there is a built in deadband), this app will
start to correct the time on the UNIX side only (how does it do this if the
MTK is on the Windows side?), but eventually the MTK sees a difference so it
corrects the time on all boxes to synch with its own time (so it appears
that this app is not actually correcting the time on the MTK).  

Questions?
*       The I/A Timesync Application User's Guide is dated 2001/2003 and is
written around NT; will it work on XP?
*       How do I know who the I/A Timesync Application thinks is the MTK?
Or how is this app designed to synchronize the UNIX and Windows boxes if not
through the MTK?  It appears to only synch the Solaris side.
*       The plant is a hybrid Mesh with Windows boxes and UNIX AWs/WPs on
the other side of ATSs.  Will this I/A Timesync Application work across the
Mesh/ATSs?

I would appreciate help from the list if there are any other users of this
I/A Timesync Application still in existence. 

Thanks.
Joseph M. Riccardi

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