Re: Time synchronization

Marc Van Dyck wrote:

What is the most sensible way to synchronize the time in a mid-size
OpenVMS farm today ?

- Use NTP everywhere and forget the rest ?
- Use DTSS with an NTP time provider ?
- Synchronize time on internet time server ?
- Use a radio time source ?
- ...

The installation I speak about is made of about 20 systems, some
clustered, some not. Mix Alpha/Itanium. And surrounded by a much
larger population of Unix and Windows systems.

What are other people over here doing ?

We use UCX's NTP and sync up to an external source. Typically, one node
of a cluster is a stratum 2 time source, and the others sync to it at
stratum 3 or higher. Stand-alones are usually stratum 3.

There's been talk internally of limiting the number of stratum 2 systems
inside the firewall and having all the others be stratum 3 or higher. No
positive action is imminent, AFAICT.

David J Dachtera
(formerly dba) DJE Systems
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