Synchronize to Peer Time Differences Issue

Hi John,

 

 

You can use ntpq to check the NTP synching:

 

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=33&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=5989059899

 

 

How far apart are the times? Is the error accurate? If so, you could verify your NTP configuraiton is working and then manually set the time to something close to accurate and let NTP update it to the exact time on each unit. As citizen_elah suggested, you can use ntpq to troubleshoot NTP issues:

 

 

SOL10240: Verifying Network Time Protocol peer server communications

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/200/sol10240.html

 

 

Searching for ntpq also returns this related solution:

 

 

SOL7017: The BIG-IP ntpd daemon is unable to communicate with the NTP server

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/000/sol7017.html

 

 

 

 

And if you need to sync the config in the meantime, you can manually copy a UCS from the most up to date unit and load it using 'b config install /path/to/updated.ucs'. Only the shared configuration will be loaded on the unit.

 

 

Aaron

Answer... open command prompt on each machine and do a

 

date -s 14:00 (or your time in 24 hrs) and enter on each machine.

 

Then go to your active box and perform a sync.

 

Works like a dream.

 

Thanks John