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AIX NTP Configuration

NTP is used to synchronize time between a client and time server.
To enable NTP on AIX server,
  1. Uncomment the xntpd line in rc.tcpip
  2. update /etc/ntp.conf file with the time server information
  3. start xntpd manually by with startsrc command startsrc -s xntpd
  4. Verify if the xntpd has started correctly lssrc -s xntpd
  5. To list all the NTP information, use lssrc with long listing lssrc -ls xntpd
Other tools available for debugging NTP:
ntpdate - syncs date with timeserver
ntpq - query ntp server for information
ntptrace - trace ntp communication


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