Originally posted by: steviep

Guys,
can individual lpars sync directly to a windows server or do they need to be set up as clients and sync to an aix ntp server first.
I've always set clients up previously to sync to an ntp server on another aix box which then gets it's time from another internal/external time source.
Not sure what is the best practice with this.

Thoughts appreciated

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Stevie: my first thought on this is that "best practice" is just a synonym for "herd instinct". If you don't understand it, can't support it, can't afford it or have to tie yourself in knots to get it working in your shop, who cares how good it is for everybody else?
That being said, I can't see why it should matter what or where your time source is per se. Windoze will work just fine as far as I know. An important consideration should be how accurate does the time on your AIX images have to be? Maybe running ntpdate once or twice a day is good enough. Are you interested in absolute accuracy or just in consistency between servers on your internal network. If you want accuracy then syncing to an external NTP server might be the way to go and ntpdate would do the job. If you're after consistency then running NTP daemons internally might be what you're after.

HTH

Jim Lane