Introduction
The Witness Witness™ software is a real-time, distributed network application and therefore is sensitive to time differences between server components. Many disparate components within the system can generate data with timestamps; it is therefore essential that the servers on which the components run are synchronised to a single time source.
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Time Synchronisation Alarms
The Witness Witness™ software is continually monitoring all the software components to ensure they are reporting the same time. If there is a problem with time differences between the software services on different servers, a system alarm will be raised. This alarm will persist whilst the time difference remains.
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