Check ntp status and time on your ESX servers

Rasmus Sjørslev — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:10:00 GMT

Inspired by dkfbp in the VMware Community forums, i made this simple script that checks the date/time and ntpd service status of your ESX servers.

Its a Powershell/vSphere PowerCLI script that basically serves as a wrapper for plink.exe which then executes commands to a list of provided ESX servers to check.
You can download plink from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Just place plink.exe in the same folder as Get-ESXTime.ps1 and execute. The script is attached with a .txt extension so just rename to .ps1

If you would like to send the script in an email, just uncomment the SMTP part at the bottom of the script.

Here is a screenshot if what the output looks like:

rasmus sjoerslev : vsphere, VMware

Check ntp status and time on your ESX servers