[caasp-beta] [caasp-beta3] NTP setup

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi

On Tue, May 09, Rushi Ns wrote:

> Hi Vincent, THorsten
> 
> This is regards to NTP option is being added to BETA3.
> 
> What I notice is that its only promoted to enter NTP server details when you select System Role “Administrtion dashboard” but not when you select Cluster Node role.

This is correct, on the cluster node we configure the timesyncd service
automatically to sync the time with the admin node.
You can download the autoyast profile from the admin dashboard and
look at or change it.

Regards,
  Thorsten


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> Best Regards,
>  
> Rushi.
> I MAY BE ONLY ONE PERSON, BUT I CAN BE ONE PERSON WHO MAKES A DIFFERENCE
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> On 4/10/17, 5:28 PM, "caasp-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com on behalf of Vincent Moutoussamy" <caasp-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com on behalf of vmoutoussamy at suse.com> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>     
>     FYI, Thorsten is referencing this message:  
>     
>     > as you should have noticed, the administration dashboard of CaaSP generates  
>     > a certificate during the first login for communication with the cluster.  
>     > Such a certificate only works, if the date/time on all machines in the  
>     > cluster is correct.  
>     >  
>     > Our cloud-init documentation contains an example, how to configure ntpd  
>     > with cloud-init during the first boot.  
>     > If you don't want to use cloud-init, please configure ntpd yourself.  
>     > If you don't want to use ntpd, you could also use systemd-timesyncd.  
>     > For this, adjust /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf and enable it with:  
>     > # timedatectl set-ntp true  
>     >  
>     > For Beta3 we will think about a mechanism to automatically setup  
>     > time synchronisation in the cluster.  
>     
>     I will add this message to the known issue section 
>     (https://www.suse.com/betaprogram/caasp-beta/#releasenotes).
>     
>     For inclusion of the NTP message in the “Installation Guide”, let’s wait for the
>     potential mechanism in Beta 3.
>     
>     Regards,  
>     --  
>     Vincent Moutoussamy
>     SUSE Beta Program and SDK Project Manager
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