Re: Automatic time setting using NIST

And if you open up a pmr on iSeries Navigator regarding the SNTP support 
the first thing they do is send you over to InsultLine to try to sell you 
this piece, until you smack them hard enough to realize that iSeries 
Navigator does support this and they need to fix the particular issue you 
are having.

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




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Jeff, from V5R1 there is an SNTP "server" that you can set up in OpsNav - 
it's really an SNTP client. This will set te so-called software clock, 
which is not necessarily the same as the hardware clock, which is what I 
assume you mean by system clock.

It is possible to run a program that retrieves the software clock time and 

sets the hardware one from it.

Another option is an offering of IBM's ConsultLine that sets the hardware 
clock from an SNTP server. It used to cost $400 for an enterprise liecnse 
(client only at that time, 5 years ago). Information available at 
<
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1387cfa70bf606545862566b3006d86e7&rs=110
>. 
It seems there is even a server pice, that allows the iSeries to be the 
server for the rest of your systems. There is also a piece that uses an 
RS-232 device to set the iSeries to Atomic Clock Time Standard

HTH

Vern

At 11:47 AM 10/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Is there any way to query one of the NIST time servers from an iSeries 
and
>set the system time to match?
>
>
>Jeff Carey
>Technical Specialist
>iSeries Technology


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