Procedure to change NTP servers on all Avamar Nodes

Procedure: The basic steps to change the NTP server should be to shutdown the avamar software and perform an asktime. Instructions are detailed below:

1. First confirm that no backup or maintenance tasks (crons) are running. It can be checked from the command line as follows:root@avar:~/#: avmaint sessions | grep path

2. Stop the Administrator server using command : dpnctl stop

3. Run Asktime :

* Open a command shell and login to Avamar server as admin user * Load the admin OpenSSH key * Switch user to root by entering : su - root * Switch to the dpn user account by entering : su - dpn * Load the dpn OpenSSH key * Run the asktime command as : dpn@myserver:~/#:asktime * Provide your inputs to on-screen options

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Procedure to change NTP servers on all Avamar Nodes

4. Wait and watch for time syncronisation to complete

5. Once the sync process has completed confirm the correct ntp server and date as follows have been set:-

* Run /usr/sbin/ntpq -pn root@avar:~/#: /usr/sbin/ntpq -pn

* Use mapall --all --parallel 'date' with the keys loaded. It needs all the node with the same time to a tolarance of up to 2 sec. admin@avar:/>:mapall --all --parallel 'date'

Please refer to Knowledge Base article esg103210 for detailed explanation.

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