Re: Automatic time setting using NIST -- MIDRANGE-L

Rob, you're right on. Support does not know that this client exists. They cannot co-exist, i.e., run at the same time. I prefer the ConsultLine version, it sets the hardware clock, and works very well. There's no ConsultLine contract involved, you just need to call one of the numbers provided on that link and you're in like Flint.

At 12:55 PM 10/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:

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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