HP-UX Internet Services Administrator's Guide (August 2003)

Configuring NTP
Chapter 456
as a continuous background client process on a system, and sends
periodic time requests to primary servers to obtain the time stamps. It
also checks for errors caused due to equipment or propagation failures.
This chapter describes the basic and advanced NTP concepts,
components and configuration instructions required to use NTP. This
chapter also includes troubleshooting information.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• “Getting Started with NTP” on page 57
• “Advanced NTP Topics” on page 75
• “Troubleshooting NTP” on page 91
The section Getting Started with NTP is ideal for beginners with limited
experience on NTP. The section Advanced NTP Topics is ideal for
anexperienced user with sufficient experience on NTP.