Time Synch

[Nikki Mastrangelo]

Hello,
I need to set up my HP9000 K420 server to synch time with an NT4.0 server on the same network. I'm not sure how to easily do this.

Thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

You might check and see if there is NTP software for Windows NT. That would probably be the easiest thing if there is software available.

[Nikki Mastrangelo]

I don't think I explained myself clearly. The NT server is the time server. I want to synch the HP's time with the NT Server's time.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The service commonly used in the UNIX world is 'xntpd' (see 'man 1M xntpd' for an overview.

...JRF...

[Rita C Workman]

Here's a thread that explains a method of how you can sync time to a local server. Now it's UNIX related, and as the others mentioned your syncing to an NT server, so hope this at least helps you a little.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x87c3854994d9d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards,
Rita

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Nikki:

A very simple guide to setting up Network Time Protocol (NTP) is found in the "Installing and Administering Internet Services" manual:

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

For a good list of available time sources, see:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1.htm


If you wish to merely synchronize time locally, take a look at Knowledge Base document #A5864817 (Click Maintenance and Support -> Search Technical Knowledge Base [and choose Doc Id from the dropdown choice with the ID=A5864817]. You can use one of your servers as a "master" clock for the remaining ones without going outside of your local network.

...JRF...

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

A quick way is ntpdate server_NT in crontab,for details see man ntpdate.