[Info-vax] How to read system time from cluster node

[Michael Austin]

Rogal wrote:
> On 26 Mar, 22:01, Michael Austin <maus... at firstdbasource.com> wrote:
>> Rogal wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>> I've been using VMS for just a few weeks, so this question may be
>>> lame :). I need to write DCL script which compares system time drift
>>> between two nodes in a cluster (VMS 7.3). Is there any method to fetch
>>> system time from another node? I hoped that F$GETSYI would have such
>>> capability but no...
>>> thanks in advance
>>> MR
>> Is there some reason you are not using NTP to keep systems in sync?
> 
> NTP is used there  but I need additional control over this - in case
> of failure of some kind. As this machine is a GSM SMS Centre where
> timestamps are critical, I need an alert to be raised when clock skew
> is more than 15-20 seconds.
> 
> MR


If NTP or TIMEServices is configured corrctly - they {sh|w}ould never 
get this far out of sync.