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HP NonStop Time Synchronization User’s Guide Page 18 of 81
Because all TimeSync features are available on all supported platforms, you have a great
deal of flexibility in how you choose to configure TimeSync within your network. Any
platform/system can act as a server, and any platform/system can act as a client. Thus it’s
really up to you to decide which configuration makes the most sense for your particular
environment. For example, Figure 1-1 shows one way that TimeSync can be configured to
manage time across systems:
Figure 1-1. TimeSync Example Architecture
In this example, TimeSync running on a Linux server (Linux3), with both client mode and
server mode enabled, obtains time from the time.nist.gov and clock.redhat.com Internet
time sources. It then supplies time to several HP NonStop servers, Windows systems, and
other Linux systems running TimeSync in client mode. The result is that all system clocks
are kept in sync.