NTP configuration

[Anthony khan]

Hi Guys,

I need to configure NTP on HP and Sun boxes, I am not sure which box I am going to make NTP server, any of you have any docs on how to configure NTP on HP and SUN boxes or any suggestion. Thanxs in advance.

Khan

[Marco Santerre]

You may want to look here for your documentation on how to configure NTP

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-toc.html&searchterms=ntp&queryid=20030327-071907

[Pete Randall]

The HP boxes are easy, you can use SAM to do it for you. The Suns, who knows?

Pete

[Patrick Wallek]

Have a look at /usr/share/doc/NTP_primer.txt

The suns use /etc/ntp.conf too, but I'm not 100% sure how to make the daemon start automatically.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Chapter-7 of "Installing and Administering Internet Services" provides a good discussion of 'ntpd' implementation for HP-UX.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685.html

For a list of external sources from which to derive correct time, and for other, general information see here:

http://www.ntp.org/index.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

I'm attaching an example configuration which uses an internal time server.

Pretty much all you need to do is configure this file and run the xntpd daemon as follows:

/sbin/init.d/nptd start



SEP

[Heath Ramos]

I have used this to help configure it.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-toc.html&searchterms=NTP%7cSAM&queryid=20020422-095315

[Heath Ramos]

Might also want to check out this document id:

Doc ID: UOTHKBAN00000796

[Sean OB_1]

FYI:

The existance of /etc/inet/ntp.conf should be enough to tell Solaris to start xntpd at boot time.

There should be an rc script in /etc/rc2.d the runs NTP and checks for the conf file before starting it.