About NTP server status
NTP server state information appears in these server tables:
• Requested NTP server table—Displays all of the configured NTP server addresses.
• Connected NTP server table—Displays all of the servers to which the SteelHeads are actually connected.
When you request a connection to an NTP server in a public NTP server pool, the server IP address doesn’t map to the actual NTP server to which the SCC connects. For example, if you request *.riverbed.pool.ntp.org, querying the pool address doesn’t return the IP address of the pool hostname, but instead returns the IP address of an NTP server within its pool. For example, when resolving 0.riverbed.pool.ntp.org returns the first NTP server, the connected NTP server table displays the IP address of this first NTP server.
This information appears after an NTP server name:
• Authentication information; unauthenticated appears after the server name when it isn’t using authentication.
When RiOS has no NTP information about the current server, nothing appears.