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Guardium ntp is not synchronized - ntp_gettime() returns code 5 (ERROR)

Troubleshooting


Problem

Guardium appliance time is not synchronized with the defined ntp server

When running "show system ntp diagnostics" in cli it produces error "ntp_gettime() returns code 5 (ERROR)"

Symptom

Example output in CLI:

appliance.ibm.com> show system ntp diagnostics
Output from ntpq -p :
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
myntpserver 1.1.1.1 2 u 70h 64 0 0.000 0.000 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 dea6b019.bc6b2000 Wed, May 16 2018 9:26:49.736, (.736010),
maximum error 16000000 us, estimated error 16 us,
TAI offset 0 ntp_adjtime()
returns code 5 (ERROR) modes 0x0 (),
offset 0.000 us, frequency 20.568 ppm, interval 1 s,
maximum error 16000000 us,
estimated error 16 us,
status 0x41 (PLL,UNSYNC),
time constant 7, precision 1.000 us,
tolerance 500 ppm,
ok

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 September 2018

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ibm10731575