About the NtpPlatformService

PlatformServices in any station contains a child NtpPlatformServicesOS, which provides an interface to the RFC 1305-compliant NTP (Network Time Protocol) service or daemon running on that host platform. NTP is the currently recommended time synchronization protocol to use between inter-networked devices, offering more accuracy than the older RFC 868 Time Protocol.

By default, this platform service is disabled.

If left disabled, this platform service does nothing.

NOTE: All Windows hosts running Niagara 4 are left in this state. If NTP operation is needed, say for a Niagara 4 Supervisor, you must configre this using native Windows tools. While different than in NiagaraAX, note this is consistent with Niagara 4 platform access of Windows hosts for other administrative tasks, say for TCP/IP configuration, or setting the date, time, or time zone.
If enabled, this platform uses NTP as a client to sync its clock with time values retrieved from one or more NTP time servers, according to other configuration properties.

See the following sections for more details:

About the NtpPlatformService

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