Re: SNTP client - was RE: How to move forward -- MIDRANGE-L

Rob, I don't know about the 11 minute thing. But the TCP9117 messages are perfectly in sync.

I am surprised that the TCP9119 at 11:35:08 AM indicates the clock was set - you had to have a wide range to allow setting, and this can mess you up. it looks like you need to look at QUTCOFFSET - 5 hours difference sounds like an offset from Greenwich. The next TCP9119, at 11:37:09 AM, shows it did not set the clock.

Regards

Vern

At 07:35 AM 8/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:

That's what I am trying to get working.  The iSeries Navigator part of
this.  It even logs the stuff into a file
/QIBM/UserData/OS400/TCPIP/NTP/QTOT20030821
where the file changes by date.
TCP9136 SNTP Client started.
TCP9116 08/21/03 11:35:08 AM NTP server UTC time is 08/21/03 16:29:05.083.

TCP9117 08/21/03 11:35:08 AM Software clock UTC time is 08/21/03
16:38:12.739.
TCP9119 08/21/03 11:35:08 AM Software clock set = 1 (0 = not set, 1 = set)

TCP9116 08/21/03 11:37:09 AM NTP server UTC time is 08/21/03 16:40:13.924.

TCP9117 08/21/03 11:37:09 AM Software clock UTC time is 08/21/03
16:40:13.971.
TCP9120 08/21/03 11:37:09 AM Software clock adjusted = 0  (0 = not
adjusted, 1 = adjusted)
However, I don't understand how the "NTP server UTC time" can vary by over
11 minutes in just two minutes time.

V5R2 of iSeries Navigator
V5R2 of OS/400
cume=TL03161
WRKPTFGRP
PTF Group             Level
SF99519                  62
SF99502                   8
SF99271                   8
SF99190                  10
SF99169                  10
SF99149                   3
SF99148                   3
SF99098                   9
SF99085                   5
SF99039                   2


Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
08/21/2003 06:15 PM
Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion

        To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
        cc:
        Fax to:
        Subject:        SNTP client - was RE: How to move forward


BTW, there's an SNTP client (lumped in with TCP/IP "servers" in OpsNav,
unfortunately) since V5R1, I think. It adjusts software clock - I have
written a thing that sets the system values based on this - it can run
every morning. The hardware clock is not the same as the software clock,
but I think this can link them.

The Consult Line is cool - nice price, too - until you need support, I
suppose. $495 for the enterprise.

Vern

At 04:49 PM 8/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>IBM doesn't even support SNTP.  We did step by step instructions on it
and
>it royally messed up our system time.  Called IBM and the first thing
they
>tried to peddle was a Consult line contract.  Stopped me dead right after
>the word SNTP.
>
>Rob Berendt


_______________________________________________
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.


_______________________________________________
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.