OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Contents

24.5.3 WAN Cells ................ 24-5

24.6 Planning for External Time-Providers ........... 24-6

Chapter 25. Managing the DCE DST ................. 25-1

25.1 Using the DCE Control Program ............. 25-1

25.1.1 DTS Objects ................ 25-1

25.1.2 dcecp Operations for DTS ............ 25-2

25.1.3 DTS Object Attributes and Counters ......... 25-2

25.2 DTS Timestamp Format ............... 25-4

25.3 Reconﬁguring DTS on Nodes ............. 25-5

25.3.1 Stopping an Existing Clerk or Server ......... 25-5

25.3.2 Creating a New Clerk or Server .......... 25-5

25.3.3 Setting Clerk and Server Attribute Values ....... 25-6

25.4 Temporarily Reconﬁguring DTS ............. 25-7

25.5 Modifying Clerk and Server Attributes ........... 25-8

25.5.1 The minservers Attribute ............ 25-9

25.5.2 Use of minservers Attribute with Global Servers .....25-11

25.5.3 Use of minservers Attribute with Systems on Point-to-Point

Lines ..................25-12

25.5.4 The maxinaccuracy Attribute ...........25-12

25.5.5 The syncinterval Attribute ............25-13

25.5.6 The tolerance Attribute .............25-14

25.5.7 The localtimeout, globaltimeout, and queryattempts

Attributes .................25-16

25.5.8 The serverentry and serverprincipal Attributes ......25-16

25.6 Management Tasks Speciﬁc to Servers ...........25-17

25.6.1 Designating Global and Courier Servers ........25-17

25.6.2 Matching Server Epochs ............25-19

25.6.3 Setting the checkinterval Attribute for Connection to a Time-

Provider .................25-19

25.7 Changing the System Time ..............25-20

25.7.1 Updating the Time Monotonically .........25-20

25.7.2 Updating the Time Nonmonotonically ........25-21

25.7.3 Forcing System Synchronization ..........25-22

25.8 Controlling Access to DTS ..............25-22

Chapter 26. Interoperation with Network Time Protocol ........... 26-1

26.1 Getting the Time from NTP Time Sources .......... 26-1

26.1.1 Getting the Time from Local NTP Time Sources ..... 26-2

26.1.2 Getting the Time from Remote NTP Time

Sources ................. 26-2

26.2 Giving the Time to NTP Nodes ............. 26-4

26.3 Preventing Loops ................. 26-5

Part 6. DCE Security Service

Chapter 27. Overview of DCE Security ................ 27-1

27.1 DCE Authentication Service Servers and Clients ........ 27-1

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