ITEM: CF4314L

DCE 2.1 two machine cell with DTS -- had a clock skew error

   Env: AIX 4.1; model: g30

   Desc:  

Customer has a 2 machine DCE cell running DTS.  One machine
is a dts local non-courier server and the other is a dts client.

The customer's CICS region crashed and when he looked at the 
/var/dce/svc/error.log, he found an entry saying that the clock skew 
was too great.

The customer manually reset the system clocks and everything was back to
normal.  He wanted to know why the clocks went out of skew in the
first place even though he was running DTS.

   Action:

Checked to see what the minimum servers required parameter was set to on
the client.  This indicated that the parameter was set to 3.

       dcecp> dts show
       {minservers 3}

We executed the following command to reset the parameter to 1:

       dtscp> set servers required 1

Informed the customer that by default, DTS clients will have the minimum
required servers set to 3.  When a DTS client cannot meet this 
requirement, an error message is logged "Too few servers" and the 
client's system clock is not synchronized with any DTS server.  

Also added a line in the /etc/dce/rc.dts file on the client:

dtscp set servers required 1 || exit 1

so that the minservers is set every time DCE is restarted.




Support Line: DCE 2.1 two machine cell with DTS -- had a clock skew error ITEM: CF4314L

Dated: November 1996 Category: N/A

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