Managing Network Time Protocol (Tasks)
The following procedures show how to set up and use the NTP
service.
How to Set Up an NTP Server
- Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
To configure a role with the Primary Administrator profile, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
- Create the ntp.conf file.
To ensure proper execution of the xntpd daemon, the ntp.conf file must first
be created. The ntp.server file can be used as a template.
# cd /etc/inet
# cp ntp.server ntp.conf
- Start the xntpd daemon.
# svcadm enable network/ntp
How to Set Up an NTP Client
- Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
To configure a role with the Primary Administrator profile, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
- Create the ntp.conf file.
To activate the xntpd daemon, the ntp.conf file must first be created.
# cd /etc/inet
# cp ntp.client ntp.conf
- Start the xntpd daemon.
# svcadm enable network/ntp