[cisco-voip] Checking NTP status on CCM

[Micah Bennett]

Thanks David

This group ROCKS!

I found the ntpd.exe on the servers.  When I run it and do the "peers"
command it shows me exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for the
example and explanation.

The publisher shows synced to my time server that does not yet have a
security key.  This shows as a statum 1 source.  It also shows my keyed
server, but does not indicate that it is an available source.  

The subscribers and the IPCC servers show synced to the Publisher server
as a stratum 2 source.      

What are the other NTP applications that are in that folder?

Ntp-keygen.exe
Ntpd.exe
Ntpdate.exe
Ntpdc.exe

Is there any reason I can't just point all of my other servers straight
to the time servers instead of the publisher. 

I am going to play with the security key setup that my linux guy gave me
and see if it will work as well.  I will let everyone know the results. 

I guess since our Unity server is part of the domain and using win32
time, the setup should be like any other windows server in our network
and our windows team can help me there. 

Micah Bennett
Telecommunications Admin
Automated License Systems


-----Original Message-----
From: David Sullivan [mailto:David.Sullivan at barnet.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:30 AM
To: Micah Bennett
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Checking NTP status on CCM

cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net wrote:
> I am not sure.  That is one reason I opened the case with TAC
> to clear up the confusion.  One of the Cisco docs says that
> you should point your Publisher to the clock server, and
> everything else to the Publisher.  Another document says that
> the NTP.conf file can only be used to point to a clock server
> and not another node such as subscriber to publisher or IPCC
> to publisher.
> 
> 
> 
> Our install partner back in 2007 told me to set it up the way
> it is now.  Publisher to clock, all other boxes to publisher.
>  I do know that right now everything appears to be in sync.
> Being able to confirm that would be great.
> 

This is also how ours are configured and this was also on the
recommendation of the partner we used as well.

> One of the other replies here on the group mentioned the ntpq
> command.  Since I am still learning, I googled this and it
> appears to be a linux command.  We are on CCM 4.2 with Windows OS.
> 

It's the monitoring tool that comes with the Udel ntp server that is
also the one used on most Linux and Unix distributions as well as being
shipped with Call Manager, it works in the same way and can show you all
the sources, whether it can communicate with them and what the server's
synced to.

David.
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