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How to Setup Windows Time Service for RAC Database

To make Network Time Protocol (NTP) work properly for running a RAC database on all Windows nodes, we should configure Windows Time Service (W32Time) before grid installation.

There're 4 steps to configure time service to meet time service requirement of grid infrastructure installation on Windows platform.

  1. Register Service
  2. Modify Parameter
  3. Update Configuration
  4. Check Time Service

Let's see the steps.

1. Register Service

To run W32Time as a service and adds its default configuration information to the registry, we need to register it first.

C:\Users\Administrator>w32tm /register
W32Time successfully registered.

2. Modify Parameter

Let's open register editor directly, then go to the path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config

The destination is as below:

Registry Editor - W32Time - Before Configuration
Registry Editor - W32Time - Before Configuration

Then set the following three parameters to 600 in decimals on all nodes in RAC.

  • MaxAllowedPhaseOffset
  • MaxNegPhaseCorrection
  • MaxPosPhaseCorrection

The order is, choose Decimal, then modify the value in field.

MaxAllowedPhaseOffset

MaxAllowedPhaseOffset decimal 600
MaxAllowedPhaseOffset decimal 600

MaxNegPhaseCorrection

MaxNegPhaseCorrection decimal 600
MaxNegPhaseCorrection decimal 600

MaxPosPhaseCorrection

MaxPosPhaseCorrection decimal 600
MaxPosPhaseCorrection decimal 600

After setting all related parameters, let's see the result.

Registry Editor - W32Time - After Configuration
Registry Editor - W32Time - After Configuration

3. Update Configuration

After W32Time has been configured, we should update the service.

C:\Users\Administrator>w32tm /config /update
The command completed successfully.

4. Check Time Service

Let's see the service status.

C:\Users\Administrator>w32tm /query /status /verbose
Leap Indicator: 3(last minute has 61 seconds)
Stratum: 0 (unspecified)
Precision: -6 (15.625ms per tick)
Root Delay: 0.0000000s
Root Dispersion: 0.0000000s
ReferenceId: 0x00000000 (unspecified)
Last Successful Sync Time: unspecified
Source: Local CMOS Clock
Poll Interval: 6 (64s)

Phase Offset: 0.0000000s
ClockRate: 0.0156250s
State Machine: 0 (Unset)
Time Source Flags: 0 (None)
Server Role: 0 (None)
Last Sync Error: 1 (The computer did not resync because no time data was available.)
Time since Last Good Sync Time: 2458.9322498s

If you saw error like this:

C:\Users\Administrator>w32tm /query /status /verbose
The following error occurred: The service has not been started. (0x80070426)

It may be stop or starting.

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