INFINIBAND: How To Configure NTP On Infiniband Switches (IB Switch)

Following are steps to configure NTP on infiniband switches.

1) Login to IB switch as root user. 

2) Switch to ILOM prompt by running “spsh” command.

3) Run following commands to set to 2 NTP servers. Replace xx. and yy. entries with NTP server IPs

set /SP/clients/ntp/server/1 address=xx.xx.xx.xx

set /SP/clients/ntp/server/2 address=yy.yy.yy.yy

4) Disable and Enable NTP service as follows:

 

set /SP/clock usentpserver=disabled

set /SP/clock usentpserver=enabled

 

5) Run following command and check if the time is set to desired time.

 

show -d properties /SP/clock

 

6) Now logout of Switch ILOM by running “exit” command, you will be back to root prompt. Run "date" command and check if the time is set to desired time.

 

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Products to which Article Applies

Any systems using Infiniband Switches for Infiniband network.

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Article Author: Tarun Boyella