[Info-vax] VAXCluster vs. VMSCluster?

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Jan 9, 3:32 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> AdeV wrote:
> > Paul Sture may or may not have intoned:
> >> In article <MPG.25b044d6a3e861b8989... at news.enta.net>,
> >>  AdeV <s... at solutionengineers.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Also, periodically, I'm seeing this error on both consoles:
>
> >>>   %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM   7-JAN-2010 19:05:38.89  %%%%%%%%%%%
> >>>   Message from user SYSTEM on ASTVAX
> >>>   Event: Too Few Servers Detected from: Node LOCAL:.ASTVAX DTSS,
>
> >> That's the DECnet Phase V time service. You are better off disabling it
> >> and if you do want time synchronization with an external server, use
> >> TCPIP's NTP instead.
>
> >> Put this in SYS$STARTUP:SYLOGICALS.COM
>
> >> $!       Disable DTSS
> >> $  DEFINE/SYSTEM NET$DISABLE_DTSS 1
>
> > Once again, thanks! Must admit, I'm glad I'm not trying to blag my way
> > into a VMS admin job...
>
> DTSS falls under the classification "Esoterica"!  I've never seen a site
> that actually used it.  At the sites where I was concerned with keeping
> time, we used NTP rather than DTSS.

Then I am probably "esotheric"!

I run Personal Alpha on my MacBook Pro. When the Mac goes to sleep, so
go PA and VMS. When everybody wakes up, the Mac still knows the
correct time, but VMS does not.
I have, so far, not been able to fix this using plain NTP. However,
using DTSS and the NTP based time provider with a large MAXERROR, the
clock gets corrected quickly.

DTSS just works. Like NTP, you need a basic understanding how it
works. Out of the box you always get the "Too few servers detected"
message.

Bart