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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:02:20 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Abdallah Harb" <abdallah.harb@onstor.com>
Cc: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>, "Paul Negus"
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Subject: Re: all we need is time
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I can certainly take care of that for you.  Just let me know when
you've got "time."

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:45:55 -0700 "Abdallah Harb"
<abdallah.harb@onstor.com> wrote:

> Brian,
>  
> It might be feasible for the time being, especially that we're
> currently shipping Cougar from ONStor. Let me know who can help
> stetting up an NTP server to our process in the HW lab? 
> Regards,
> Abdallah
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Brian Stark
> Sent: Wed 7/30/2008 9:30 PM
> To: Andy Sharp; Paul Negus; Abdallah Harb
> Cc: Larry Scheer; Vikas Saini; Jonathan Goldick
> Subject: RE: all we need is time
> 
> 
> 
> Andy,
> 
> As part of ICT, we are programming the date and time into the RTC.
> This is a process that we just recently started and should keep the
> boards in sync. 
> 
> Ops can comment on the feasibility of adding a NTP server to the
> process.  My take is that this wouldn't be easy during system test at
> the CM.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:42 PM
> > To: Paul Negus; Abdallah Harb
> > Cc: Brian Stark; Larry Scheer; Vikas Saini; Jonathan Goldick
> > Subject: all we need is time
> >
> > I'm proposing the addition of an Ops/AT/something (forgive my
> > ignorance) procedure for all filers before they are shipped:
> > their clocks be synchronized to an NTP server.  If they are
> > configured to the same ntp server and then rebooted, they
> > should have the same time as that ntp server.  This would
> > help us greatly with problems in the field where nodes in a
> > cluster have the clock set at installation time because it
> > isn't close, and the result is that every node in the cluster
> > has, sometimes slightly, sometimes largely, different times. 
> > This is causing us significant headaches.
> >
> > Having the time synch'd on each system before it's sent out
> > would give us a great jump on these types of problems: all
> > the user would have to do is set the timezone and all nodes
> > in the cluster would have times that are very close, which
> > will be fine until their ntp config is working.  Which for
> > some customers who are NTP challenged, can be days/weeks.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > a
> > 
> 
