Sun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System
 

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Goal

Solution

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Goal

How to enable and synchronize the system time with the time server. 
Show the command syntax to enable this time command.

Solution

Use the CLI command:

time network

Below is the help printout for the time command.

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login as: service

Using keyboard-interactive authentication.

Password:

SERVICE>> help time

time <print> | <network> | <hh:mm:ss> | <hh:mm>

Print or set the library's time value. Takes the library from network time if set. The network option re-enables network time.

Depending on the network, it may take several minutes to revert back to network time.

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The SL 500 command "time" with option "network" will do the next:

SERVICE>> time network
Time:  22:44:43
OK

It does not show any other information. So this behavior is normal.
feature: NTP server IP can not be showed up on the SL500 CLI

SL500 will trigger search for multicast NTP server. Some time after SL500 will find NTP and sync time with it.
For Solaris OS you may be interested in doc:     How to Set Up a Network Time Protocol (NTP) Client in Solaris (Doc ID 1005887.1)
If you are looking for NTP v 4 than : ntpd - Network Time Protocol daemon Version 4 information (Doc ID 1940415.1)
and the introduction into Solaris 11.2 network services with brief overview for NTP:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36824/gen_html/time-1.html#scrolltoc

Basically in order to configure multicast on your existing NTP server you will need to add string in ntp.conf like:
broadcast <IP address like: > ttl <ttl value>
example:
broadcast 224.0.1.1 ttl 4
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