HP 5500 EI Series Configuration Manual page 45

Clock status: synchronized
Clock stratum: 4
Reference clock ID: 3.0.1.31
Nominal frequency: 64.0000 Hz
Actual frequency: 64.0000 Hz
Clock precision: 2^7
Clock offset: 0.0000 ms
Root delay: 31.00 ms
Root dispersion: 8.31 ms
Peer dispersion: 34.30 ms
Reference time: 16:01:51.713 UTC Sep 19 2005 (C6D95F6F.B6872B02)
The output shows that Device B has synchronized to Device C because it has a higher stratum than
Device C.
# Display NTP session information for Device B.
[DeviceB-Vlan-interface2] display ntp-service sessions
source reference
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[1234] 3.0.1.31 127.127.1.0
note: 1 source(master),2 source(peer),3 selected,4 candidate,5 configured
Total associations :
The output shows that an association has been set up between Device B and Device C.
# Display NTP service status information on Device A.
[DeviceA-Vlan-interface2] display ntp-service status
Clock status: synchronized
Clock stratum: 4
Reference clock ID: 3.0.1.31
Nominal frequency: 64.0000 Hz
Actual frequency: 64.0000 Hz
Clock precision: 2^7
Clock offset: 0.0000 ms
Root delay: 31.00 ms
Root dispersion: 8.31 ms
Peer dispersion: 34.30 ms
Reference time: 16:01:51.713 UTC Sep 19 2005 (C6D95F6F.B6872B02)
The output shows that configuring NTP authentication on Device C does not affect Device A and
Device A still synchronizes to Device C.
stra reach
3 254
1
35
poll now offset
64 62 -16.0
delay disper
32.0 16.6