DTSS too few servers message

[Kjell Carlsson]

You can skip the DTSS startup by editing the file sys$manager:NET$DTSS_CLERK_STARTUP.NCL.

Just comment out the lines;
!!CREATE DTSS TYPE CLERK
and
!!ENABLE DTSS SET CLOCK TRUE

If you want to use the DTSS you can set up a server in your net and define the clerks to need only one server. You can also set up your DTSS-server to use external NTP time synch.

But I think NTP is a better way for time synch. As far as I know DTSS is not supported in a DECnet over TCP/IP network.

Kjell Carlsson

[Don Nutt]

Using the NCL to DISABlE and DELETE DTSS along with the DEFINE/SYS NET$DISABLE_DTSS 1 has worked for us. Using SYLOGICALS was a solution for us.

Modifying the the DTSS NCL script is a temporary solution. If you or someone else runs NETCONFIG and during some upgrades, this file reverts back to HP's default. I had this happen during 7.2, 7.2-1 and 7.3 upgrades. Since we created a COM file to handel DTSS for us and call it from SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM, we haven't had a reoccurrance of DTSS messages.

Another side effect of DTSS is can cause DST (Daylight Savings Time) issues (even with NTP running). My servers are on UTC and this can create havoc with time stamps for our application.

NTP has been a better solution all around and investment in 1 or 2 good GPS based time server is good idea. We use 2 and site diversity to solve our issues.

Good luck and lots of good info on this forum. Thanks.

Don

[Benjamin Levy]

If "periodically" means on 12 hour intervals of the DTSS$CLERK process starting, then look into assigning the logical DTSS$FLUSH_CACHE to FALSE.

BL