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Why Can't NetApp Keep Time



 
 
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Old February 4th 05, 09:32 PM
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The company I work for has NetApp file servers and according to our IT
people, they can't keep proper time using NTP.

Why not?

Consequently, builds across network drives are a nuisance. Apparently
the clock drifts fast and our ops set the time slow to compensate. We
don't have to have the correct time, but we do need for all systems to
have the *same* time. As the NetApp server can't do NTP service, we
can't it to be the common time.

Thanks.

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Old February 4th 05, 11:07 PM
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writes:

The company I work for has NetApp file servers and according to our
IT people, they can't keep proper time using NTP.

Why not?


If you're having trouble with NTP why are you asking in a storage
newsgroup? Try asking in the NTP group:

comp.protocols.time.ntp

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Old February 6th 05, 04:25 PM
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Netapp like web pages.

Filer-Set Date/Time
Set Timezone
Set Misc.

Or as mentioned above (and how we did it) edit the file by hand.
Our time is always on the money. If it were not our users would complain.

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Old February 7th 05, 11:12 PM
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:25:33 GMT, "Wolf"
wrote:


Netapp like web pages.

Filer-Set Date/Time
Set Timezone
Set Misc.

Or as mentioned above (and how we did it) edit the file by hand.
Our time is always on the money. If it were not our users would complain.


FilerView?! Bah, I forget it even exists. Besides, all that does is
edit the options directive which in turn edits the registry. Any more
I think the entry in the rc file does the same thing as well.

I see entries in the log file all the time about time being off by X
seconds. It keeps correcting them but they keep happening. And
usually it's by 3.x seconds. Odd, now that I write that every one
that I can recall was 3.x seconds. Need to look into that one...

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Old February 8th 05, 12:50 AM
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"Faeandar" wrote in message
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:25:33 GMT, "Wolf"
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Netapp like web pages.

Filer-Set Date/Time
Set Timezone
Set Misc.

Or as mentioned above (and how we did it) edit the file by hand.
Our time is always on the money. If it were not our users would complain.


FilerView?! Bah, I forget it even exists. Besides, all that does is
edit the options directive which in turn edits the registry. Any more
I think the entry in the rc file does the same thing as well.

I see entries in the log file all the time about time being off by X
seconds. It keeps correcting them but they keep happening. And
usually it's by 3.x seconds. Odd, now that I write that every one
that I can recall was 3.x seconds. Need to look into that one...


I set it up that way as part of the installation process and have had zero
problems. I have not bothered looking at how many seconds it may go
off since it uses our ntp servers to keep time and it's always on the money.

Another avenue to find out more is to call Netapp support for help-they
are usually very helpful.

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