This article is the first of a series on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). NTP allows synchronizing clocks on different network nodes, which is critical in today's networked world. This first article provides an overview of why time synchronization is impo http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/NTP.pdf
This article is the third in a series of three articles that discuss using Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize system clocks. The goal of this article is to provide an effective understanding of NTP troubleshooting and monitoring. http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0901/NTPpt3.pdf
Accurate timekeeping is vital to accurate records, and accurate logs are the mainstay of good system administration. Glenn Graham explains NTP (the Network Time Protocol) and how to put it to work on your network. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/01/02/ntp.html
This article addresses the time skew issues for the Sun Fire 12K/F15K server and explains how the system controllers and domains can be configured as NTP clients to external servers. A sample configuration is also provided. This article is targeted to the http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0603/817-2979.pdf
Four page document that gives a very simple high-level overview of how NTP works and some of the issues to be considered when looking to set up NTP time servers. This company is a vendor of NTP time servers and related hardware. http://www.endruntechnologies.com/pdf/NTP-Intro.pdf
A tutorial on installing NTP servers on UNIX (OpenBSD and Linux) and Windows to accurately synchronize computer times. http://geodsoft.com/howto/timesync/
Aimed primarily at helping internal BNL.gov users with NTP, this page provides useful setup information for various flavors of Unix. http://www.ccd.bnl.gov/xntp/