Problems with timesync
Hi
I'm new to Oracle virtualization but for my new job I now have to "manage" a number of Oracle virtual machines running on Oracle VM. Today I noticed that the time between of all the machines (physical and virtual) is not in sync. The VMs running Oracle could easily be corrected by removing a number of server entries from the /etc/ntp.conf file and adding our internal ntp server. However on the Oracle VM physical hosts, this didn't solve the issue.
When working on the VMs, running "ntpq -p" command, I get the following output:
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
xxxxxxxxx LOCAL(0) 11 u 790 1024 377 4.277 0.142 13.487
*LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 21 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001
On the physical Oracle servers I get:
[root@srv-oracl2 ~]# ntpq -p
srv-oracl2: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out
On physical server stopping ntpd and running ntpdate -v 10.x.x.x (ip of ntp server), I receive:
23 Nov 15:32:11 ntpdate[15093]: ntpdate 4.2.2p1@1.1570-o Mon May 18 21:19:12 UTC 2009 (1)
23 Nov 15:32:11 ntpdate[15093]: adjust time server 10.x.x.x offset -0.027741 sec
So to me it looks like the physical server can talk to the NTP server, but I can't figure out why ntpq -p is not working.
Am I correct in believing that testing with ntpq -p gives me proof of ntp working correctly?
I checked the ntp.conf on both the VM and the physical server and they are identical.
Gabrie