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IBM Security Guardium: NTP sync failed in v11 and v11.1

Troubleshooting


Problem

After fresh installation of v11 and v11.1 using auto ISO, unable to synchronize Guardium appliance with Network Time Protocol (NTP) server   

Symptom

NTP configured successfully and synced with Guardium appliance for the first time before rebooting the appliance on setup completion 
--> show system ntp diagnostics
Output from ntpq -p :
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*ntp_server XX.XX.XX.100    5 u  200 1024  377    0.489    9.510   7.810
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Output from ntptime :
(Note that if you have just started the ntp server, it may report an 'ERROR' until it has synchronized.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
ntp_gettime() returns code 0 (OK)
  time e1f0dc4e.05b0dd80  DateTime (.022230117),
  maximum error 807596 us, estimated error 6418 us, TAI offset 0
ntp_adjtime() returns code 0 (OK)
After first reboot
--> show system ntp diagnostics
Output from ntpq -p :
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 ntp_server XX.XX.XX.100    5 u    4   64    1    0.518    1.190   0.000
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Output from ntptime :
(Note that if you have just started the ntp server, it may report an 'ERROR' until it has synchronized.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
ntp_gettime() returns code 5 (ERROR)
  time e1f0dd82.2b27135c  DateTime (.168565172),
  maximum error 16000000 us, estimated error 16000000 us, TAI offset 0
ntp_adjtime() returns code 5 (ERROR)

Document Location

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Modified date:
28 May 2020

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