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24 SPARC Enterprise Mx000 Servers Administration Guide • April 2007
If the domain and the Service Processor are using the same time source (for example,
the Service Processor), one benefit is that events logged in the Solaris OS and on the
Service Processor can be correlated based on their timestamp; if the domain uses a
different server as the NTP server, the Service Processor and domain times may
drift, and correlating log files could become difficult.
Every NTP server and every NTP client must have an ntp.conf file, in
/etc/inet/ntp.conf. The Service Processor has a default ntp.conf file. If you
are using NTP, you must create an ntp.conf file on each domain.
If you are using the Service Processor as the NTP server for the domains, create an
ntp.conf file on each domain similar to the following:
where ip_address is the IP address you configured for the Service Processor on the
DSCP network. To display the Service Processor’s IP address, use the showdscp -s
command.
If you are using an external NTP server for the domains, refer to the xntpd(1M) man
page or to the Solaris OS documentation collection for information on creating the
ntp.conf file for each domain.
SNMP Service
A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent can be configured and
enabled on the Service Processor. The Service Processor SNMP agent monitors the
state of the system hardware and domains, and exports the following information to
an SNMP manager:
■ System information such as chassis ID, platform type, total number of CPUs, and
total memory
■ Configuration of the hardware
■ Dynamic reconfiguration information, including which domain-configurable units
are assigned to which domains
■ Domain status
CODE EXAMPLE 3-3 Sample ntp.conf File for a Domain using XSCF as NTP Server
server ip_address
slewalways yes
disable pll
enable auth monitor
driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift
statsdir /var/ntp/ntpstats/
filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable