In this post, I'm going to address some of the more common myths about NTP and how to avoid the mistakes which they produce. Some of these myths are grounded in fact, and in many cases it's fine to accept them if you don't need highly accurate...
(See the menu for other posts in this series.) Am I in sync? So now that we've configured NTP, how do we know it's working? As Limoncelli et. al. have said, "If you aren't monitoring it, you aren't managing it." There are several tools which...
(Part 1 covered the background and rationale. Part 3 is about installation and configuration.) What is NTP? NTP (Network Time Protocol) is an Internet standard for time synchronisation covered by multiple RFCs. "NTP is [arguably] the longest...
(With apologies to Derek Zoolander and Justin Steven. And to whoever had to touch the HP-UX NTP setup at Queensland Police after I left. And to anyone who prefers the American spelling "synchronization".) (This is the first of a series on NTP. ...
Novell's SMT (Subscription Management Tool) is a software update tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE. I've had the dubious honour of working with it over the last few months on a client site. These notes were compiled as a result of...