On Monday, 08/01/2011 at 02:30 EDT, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > Sounds like it would be worth teaching NTP to treat the CEC TOD clock as a > stratum 2 time source.
For zBX purposes, the need for common time is to get logs properly sequenced. It doesn't have to be ultra-accurate, just "close enough". By resyncing the BOC every hour, that becomes doable. If you want your apps to all have a common time reference, then run STP on the z side and an NTP client on each non-z OS image. Will there be alternatives to that in the future? Dunno. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
