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See also: “Bindery services.”
Time synchronization
NetWare allows servers to synchronize their time with each other. NetWare
Services gets its time from NTP, and when the NetWare Server is run in
reference mode, it can advertise this clock value to the other NetWare
servers on the network.
Time synchronization is critical to the operation of NetWare Directory
Services because it establishes the order of events.
Whenever an event occurs in the Directory, such as when a password is
changed, or an object is renamed, NetWare Directory Services assigns a time
stamp.
A time stamp is a unique code that includes the time and identifies the event.
The NetWare Directory Services event is assigned a time stamp so that the
order in which replicas are updated is correct.
When you install NetWare Services, time synchronization is created by
default, or you can customize synchronization by specifying a server as one
of four types:
• Single Reference time server
• Reference time server
• Primary time server
• Secondary time server
Each time server performs a particular time synchronization function.
See also: “Time synchronization.”
NetWare Directory Services daemons
HP-UX processes running in the background with little or no user input.
Because NetWare Services does not support NetWare loadable modules
(NLMs), the function of some NLMs are performed by daemons. The
daemons that perform NetWare Directory Services (NDS) functions are
• NetWare daemon, which installs and initializes NDS
• Server Advertiser Daemon, which keeps the server advertiser protocol (SAP)