User Guide

228 Utilities Reference
Utilities Reference
103-000153-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
TIMESYNC Hardware Clock = value Controls hardware clock synchronization.
Supported values:
ON = The primary and secondary time servers set the hardware
clock, and the single reference and reference time servers set
their time from the hardware clock at the beginning of each polling
interval
OFF = Use only if this server uses an external time source (such
as a radio clock)
Default: ON
TIMESYNC Polling Count = number Specify how many time packets to exchange while polling.
Increasing the number of packets adds unnecessary traffic to the
network.
Supported values: 1 to 1000
Default: 3
TIMESYNC Polling Interval = number Specify the long polling interval, in seconds.
Supported values: 10 to 2678400 seconds (31 days)
Default: 600 seconds (10 minutes)
All servers in the same tree must use the same setting.
TIMESYNC REMOVE Time Source =
server_name
Delete a server as a time source.
Use EDIT, rather than this parameter, to delete a server from the
time source list in the TIMESYNC.CFG file.
Maximum: 48 characters
TIMESYNC RESET = value Reset time synchronization and clear the time source list.
Use EDIT, rather than this parameter, to reset values in the
TIMESYNC.CFG file and to remove the time source list from the
file.
Supported values:
ON = Selected internal values are reset and the configured server
list is cleared. Flag automatically resets to OFF.
Default: OFF
Parameter Use to