Event: Too Few Servers Detected from

[John A. Beard]

Hi,

We are getting the following messages in the operator.log . I would appreciate it if you could explain what this means, and what we should be doing to prevent it happening.

%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 4-JAN-2007 09:52:17.84 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on MTOV42
Event: Too Few Servers Detected from: Node LOCAL:.MTOV42 DTSS,
at: 2007-01-04-09:52:17.841-05:00Iinf
Number Detected=0,
Number Required=1
eventUid 43643E8E-9BD9-11DB-B5C5-4D544F563432
entityUid 684E0F94-8453-11DB-8726-AA0004002A0C
streamUid 6819C966-8453-11DB-86FE-AA0004002A0C

[WWarren · Accepted solution]

You're running DECnet/OSI.
DTSS is the time service for DECnet/OSI.
Your system can't find a time server.
Either find/make a server, or disable DTSS.

[As an aside, DTSS is the equivalent of TCP/IP's NTP. I wouldn't recommend running both DTSS and NTP - they'll be battling over whose time is authoritative.]

[John A. Beard]

Thank you for the quick response.

If I could ask one additional thing there. This particular server is one of number of new AlphaServers running at one of our sites.

As far as I can see, this particular server is the only one generating these messages. Is there a process whereby I can quickly check on the other servers to compare a particular setting in NCL so as to make this one particular box fall into line with the others.

[Steven Schweda]

Perhaps:

pipe mcr ncl show dtss all char | -
search sys$input "Servers Required"

If that's it, follow with an appropriate
ncl set dtss servers_required X

As the HELP says, the default is 3 for a
server. Around here:

Servers Required = 1

and I run a DTSS$NTP_PROVIDER (which probably
should be updated to DTSS$PROVIDER_NTP).

[John A. Beard]

Thanks to both of you for taking the time to reply. I have just discovered that we are using NTP, so we will disable DTSS on those servers that show it enabled.

[John A. Beard]

As per my last comment