perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Michael Johnson <>]

Hi Andreas,

Are you trying to use 'pool' NTP servers? The upgrade script should preserve 
your servers, unless you are using pool servers, which are not recommended.

Thanks,
Michael

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 03:54:53PM +0200, Andreas Haupt wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2015, 06:40 -0700 schrieb Andrew Lake:
> > If you follow the instructions
> > at http://docs.perfsonar.net/manage_ntp.html#selecting-the-closest-servers 
> > does it pick a better set or do you still end-up with the US servers? You 
> > should also be able to manually select your NTP servers from that interface 
> > as well and it should persist after update.
>
> Yes, when clicking on that button in the web interface, it does exactly
> what it should!
>
> But the problem is that almost every week an automatic perfsonar update
> appears which resets it to the defaults :-( I actually do not want to
> watch it all the time in order to clean up the mess such updates left
> behind.
>
> Didn't perfsonar start with the motto: "Install it and forget about
> it"? ;-) That's currently not the case, unfortunately ...
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
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