Thanks very much:
Gerhard Nolte <gnolte_at_gwdg.de>
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman_at_nersc.gov>
Matt Thomas <thomas_at_lkg.dec.com>
The short story is that in my case I can run DECnet Phase V without DTS.
I answered 'n' to the DTSS clerk and server question and up to now I
have not discovered any problem.
The long story is listed below.
Thanks very much the help,
Achim
ORIGINAL QUESTION
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ach_at_rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de said:
> I have to install DECNet V on one of your OSF/1^H^H^H^H^H DU V3.2B
> hosts to run PolyCenter DECNet Manager. Unfortunately this will be
> the first (and only) Phase V node in our network. (DECNet IV is only
> running on VMS hosts.)
> In order to get DECNet V running I have to setup a DTS server. Our DU
> hosts already use XNTP to synchronize their clocks. Therefore, is it
> possible to setup DTS to use XNTP? Or can I even setup DECNet to use
> the local clock that are already synchronized using XNTP? Have I
> missed a important RTFM? All I found is Phase IV -> Phase V migration
> that does not help.
ANSWERS
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thomas_at_lkg.dec.com said:
> If you are just a single node, don't worry about DTS if you are
> getting your time from NTP. -- Matt Thomas
oberman_at_nersc.gov said:
> Either will work. I believe the DTSS provider code included with
> DECnet/OSI has support for NTP as a reference. And, if thee system is
> already running NTP and you feel confident that it is working, you
> can simply make yourself the only DTSS server. In any case, you will
> need to reduce the minimum number of DTSS servers from 3 to 1.
gnolte_at_gwdg.de send a decnet install log file. The relevant portion is:
...
>Will this system be configured as a DTSS clerk only? (y/n) [n]:
>Will this system be configured as a DTSS server? (y/n) [n]:
>This system will be not be configured to run DTSS.
...
Received on Wed May 15 1996 - 21:29:45 NZST