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Canan's avatar
Canan
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Jul 04, 2019

NTP Time Difference between Active and Passive Nodes

Hello, I need some help. I have a two F5 (Active- Passive) and they are configured to have same NTP server. Active one is showing correct time, however the standby is showing 3 minutes of difference...
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Dario_Garrido
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Jul 05, 2019

When the difference is too big, sometimes is not possible to synchronize. I recommend you to force the datetime manually and after that, try to check using NTP

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K3381

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BTW, you can check your NTP reachability with this command

# ntpdate -q <ntp_server_ip>

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KR,

Dario.