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Happy New Year ... <br>
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btw, looks like TimeOwner may not be of interest for the community
?. Shall we go ahead remove that setting ?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">!! Vishwa !!<br>
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<p>Hello community,<br>
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<p>Would be really great if there is any feedback on
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<p>Have a happy holidays !!<br>
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<p>!! Vishwa !!</p>
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Do we need this going forward ?</b>: I am
being asked by UX team about the need of this
and I mentioned I would get the community
feedback on this. Although, I feel this level of
granularity gives control over how we can manage
time, it would not justify the complexity if the
customers don't appreciate it. Removing the
TimeOwner would make the code a lot simpler.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:windowtext">I am coming from the
UX side of how we set the date time settings
page up for phosphor-webui downstream
recently. We switched our page to use Redfish,
here’s how ours is set up now:</span></p>
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style="color:windowtext">There is no longer a
“time owner” and the setting is either:</span></p>
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style="color:windowtext">NTPEnabled: true or
false</span></p>
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style="color:windowtext">If false, we are not
allowing the user to set the time, because the
BMC is synching from the host time and
therefore any settings we made to the time on
the BMC would be overwritten. </span></p>
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style="color:windowtext">If true, we use the
NTP server(s) the user provides.</span></p>
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style="color:windowtext">We are testing this
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Hi, Thank you for the response. From what I
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<div>- TimeOwner is not settable via GUI<br>
- Irrespective of NTP setting, the user is not
allowed to set the time on BMC<br>
- BMC is syncing the time from Host.<br>
- This means, the current TimeOwner is "Host" and
NTP is off. Is that being set as default ?<br>
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I am requesting for feedback from the community on
the need of TimeOwner feature that we have in
Settings and timemanager code.<br>
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!! Vishwa !!<br>
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My 2cents here along with a few questions:
<div>- how does the current time manager interact
with systemd-timesyncd?<br>
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TimeManager interacts with systemd-timedated, which in turn
engages systemd-timesync on setting <strong>NTP </strong>policy.<br>
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<div>- From my experience, BMC time can drift a lot easily
and it is more useful to have the BMC time synced
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This is a discussion point for using / not using NTP. It would
not impact TimeOwner<br>
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<div>- Whether NTP or host time is preferred should be left
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If the setting is NTP, then Host can not set the time on BMC
unless the Owner is SPLIT.<br>
I believe, you are saying more from a NTP / Non NTP as opposed
to TimeOwner ?<br>
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<div>- sounds like it would be more straightforward to have
the 'Owner' reflect one time source: NTP/IPMI/Redfish<br
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This is part of TimeSynchronization. TimeOwner is another layer
on who owns the time as opposed to how the time is set.<br>
Hopefully the README I pointed to before would help.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
!! Vishwa !!<br>
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