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MIB for current date and time

Anyone know if there is a MIB that holds the current date & time (equivalent to "sh clock" command) for Cisco routers & switches or do date & time only result from calculation? Since we just entered daylight savings time, I was thinking of writing a custom poller to retrieve this info and create a report to verify all the routers & switches correctly adjusted time.

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FormerMember

Anyone have any thoughts?

FormerMember

point all your routers and switches to a single device in your network that serves out NTP and then have that one device act as NTP server and draw from as low of a stratum as you can.

This way your network will always be in sync.

then all you need to do is check a single device and to verify if DST went into effect.

FormerMember

Hemi,

Thanks for your thoughts. All our 1200+ routers and switches are currently configured as you suggest. That is, they are suppose to be. However, our engineers have been known to forget to configure or misconfigure the NTP statements on new or replaced equipment and some of these misconfigurations are not caught until sometime later, for example, when troubleshooting or DST change. We would like to be able to poll the device date/time and create a report to verify the date/time is set correctly on all devices. The report would identify, if any, any devices that are misconfigured with incorrect date/time settings.

Any further ideas are surely welcome.

Ron