Configure NTP

[Musa I. S.]

i have 4 PA-RISC Servers and 5 Itanium Servers. I want to set up NTP. i intend to use one of the itanium servers (rx1620) as the NTP server. How do i achieve this.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90774/index.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-91060/ch04s03.html

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-configure-hpux-unix-xntpd-ntp-server/

SEP

[SUDHAKAR_18]

Hi,

attached doc will help you to configure NTP.

Regards,

[Musa I. S.]

The documents look interesting. I will give you a feedback after going thru them.

Thanks.

[Kaleung Tsou · Accepted solution]

First, choose one system to act as the internal NTP server. Now do the following:

1. On the system chosen as the NTP server:

A. Edit the /etc/ntp.conf. Search for and uncomment the following lines:

server time.nist.gov
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift

B. Edit the /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons, and go to the xntp section. Make
the following lines look like this:

export NTPDATE_SERVER=time.nist.gov
export XNTPD=1
export XNTDP_ARGS=




2. On each client system, do the following:

A. Edit the /etc/ntp.conf file and add or uncomment two lines to look like
this:

# server 128.8.10.1 key 2000 minpoll 6 prefer

server
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift

B. Edit the /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons, find the xntp section, and make it
look like this:

export NTPDATE_SERVER=
export XNTPD=1
export XNTDP_ARGS=

3. On each system, execute /sbin/init.d/xntpd start, or reboot each system.
If the time is off more than a few seconds between the systems, synchronize by rebooting.

4. Run ntpq -p on each system to check status.