I've been trying to find some documentation on NOW about this, but it's pretty schetchy. Basically, I need to confirm that my NetApp boxes, all running 7.0.1R1, are correctly syncing their time to our NTP servers.
Running 'ntptrace filer' just gives me stuff like this:
# ntptrace filer1 filer1: stratum 15, offset -0.519726, synch distance 0.00000 0.0.0.0: *Timeout*
Though I have the timed options setup as follows:
timed.enable on timed.log on timed.max_skew 30m timed.min_skew 10 timed.proto ntp timed.sched 9m timed.servers x.y.1.1,x.y.2.2 timed.window 15s
The filer can ping both time servers, and I do see the following in the messages log:
Tue Jan 3 14:38:49 EST [kern.timed.adjust:info]: server 'x.y.2.2' reports the appliance date is slow by 0.513 seconds which is more than timed.min_skew (0.010 seconds). Adjusting date.
So I guess it's working ok, but it's hard to tell easily. Especially since I want to turn off the timed.log option once I know how to check it quickly and easily for the correct time. Esp since I've got a cluster of F980s to keep in sync as well.
Thanks, John