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Configuring time synchronization
5.3 Overview of configuration steps, depending on the configuration
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5.3.3 Configuration steps for time synchronization with a central time master in a
Windows domain with a hierarchy
Overview of configuration steps
The table below shows the configuration steps required for time synchronization with a
central time master in a Windows domain with a hierarchy, including a reference to the
sections of this documentation that provide a description of these steps:
Step Time
synchronization
components
Configuration steps Operating instructions in section:
1
SICLOCK with
GPS or DCF 77
Clocks - connection,
installation, and parameter
assignment
• "Commissioning a central plant clock
(Page 60)"
2
DC
Parameterizing domain
controllers as time masters
See Microsoft reference material
3
PC, e.g. BATCH
station
Parameterizing PCs without
WinCC time synchronization
via DCF 77
• "How to make DCF 77 Client Service
settings on a PC station without OS
(Page 93)"
4
OS clients
Parameterizing OS clients
5
OS servers
Parameterizing OS servers
as cooperative time masters
• "How to set time synchronization on
an OS in a domain with central time
master. (Page 79)"
6
AS
Parameterizing automation
systems
• "How to set time synchronization on
an AS for SIMATIC mode (Page 99)."
• "How to set time synchronization on
an AS for NTP mode (Page 105)"
• "Configuring time synchronization for
the SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX and
SIMATIC PCS 7 AS RTX
(Page 109)"