Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Alexander Dalloz
ankush grover schrieb: Hi friends, I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time gets changed some false alarms gets generated. I

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread nate
ankush grover wrote: Earlier this server was syncing time through ntp daemon and below is the ntp.conf file. Now I have set a cronjob which sync the time with Best not to run NTP inside a ESX VM. I've never gotten NTP to sync inside of VMware outside of a kernel with VMI enabled (no versions

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:08 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: ankush grover wrote: Earlier this server was syncing time through ntp daemon and below is the ntp.conf file. Now I have set a cronjob which sync the time with Best not to run NTP inside a ESX VM. I've never gotten NTP to

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread nate
Akemi Yagi wrote: for VMware products including ESX and ESXi. According to their current recommendations, In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. I've been using vmware for 10 years, and I've never, ever ever gotten NTP to hold sync inside of a VM outside

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
nate wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: for VMware products including ESX and ESXi. According to their current recommendations, In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. I've been using vmware for 10 years, and I've never, ever ever gotten NTP to hold

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Benjamin Franz schrieb: nate wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: for VMware products including ESX and ESXi. According to their current recommendations, In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. I've been using vmware for 10 years, and I've never, ever ever

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Clint Dilks
nate wrote: ankush grover wrote: Earlier this server was syncing time through ntp daemon and below is the ntp.conf file. Now I have set a cronjob which sync the time with Best not to run NTP inside a ESX VM. I've never gotten NTP to sync inside of VMware outside of a kernel with

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Clint Dilks cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nz wrote: The OP should also reference this document http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1006427 This is the 3rd time that KB article was quoted in this thread... :-D

[CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-21 Thread ankush grover
Hi friends, I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time gets changed some false alarms gets generated. I searched it on the google but I

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:19 AM, ankush grover ankushcen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
ankush grover wrote: Hi friends, I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time gets changed some false alarms gets generated. I