Managing the Distributed Time Service

You can use the dcecp program to create and enable DTS. Once this is done, you can perform routine management tasks, such as enhancing performance, reconfiguring the network, and changing local time.

Several commands and characteristics modify and improve the performance of your network. The dts modify command changes the values of many of these characteristics. The dts show command displays the values of characteristics at any time. The following are some of the tasks you can accomplish using the DTS commands and the characteristics of DTS that can be set:

· Display or change the number of servers that must supply time values to the system before DTS can synchronize the system clock.

· Display or change the inaccuracy limit that forces the system to synchronize in order to bring the inaccuracy back to an acceptable level.

· Display or change the interval at which you want clock synchronization to occur.

· Display or change the reaction to a faulty system clock.

· Display or change the settings that indicate how often to query servers.

Refer to the OSF DCE Administration Guide - Core Components for more information on these and the following tasks:

· Creating and enabling DTS.

· Assigning the courier role to servers to facilitate communications to other parts of your network.

· Matching the epoch number for servers that you add to your network after the initial configuration. An epoch number is an identifier that a server appends to the time values it sends to other servers. Servers only use time values from other servers with whom they share epoch numbers.

· Advertising DTS servers to CDS, thereby registering them as objects in the namespace.