Request for Feedback :: Time Mode setting in timemanager

[Patrick Williams]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 04:01:58PM -0500, Brad Bishop wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Feb 18, 2020, at 3:52 PM, Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
> > 
> >> oes this have to do with what is going on, on the BMC?
> > 
> > When the BMC owns the hardware RTC, { Manual , Host } is the only mode
> > that allows the Host to utilize the RTC hardware without being subject
> > to the provider's time infrastructure.
> 
> Would this be in a situation where the lessee can’t run NTP on the host?

IIRC, { NTP, Host } is an invalid combination.  When Owner is Host, we
allow the IPMI commands to set time.  How the Host got that time, we
cannot control at that point (NTP vs operator).

-- 
Patrick Williams
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