Description

In investigating, the alarms are showing an ntp problem:

# show alarms

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 ID         Time                 Severity   Source   Category   Message

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SSR-router  2025-01-14 02:32:36  MAJOR       SYSTEM      No active NTP server

 

# show ntp

Tue 2025-04-08 19:06:37 UTC

Retrieving NTP information...

 

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 Node       Time Source   Status  Ref. ID  Stratum  Type  When  Poll  Reach  Delay  Offset  Jitter  Tally Code

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 SSR-router   <time server1>   active  .INIT.     16  u   -1024    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  reject

 SSR-router   <time server2>   active  .INIT.     16  u   -1024    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  reject

 SSR-router    <time server3>  active  .INIT.     16  u   -1024    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  reject

 SSR-router    <time server4>  active  .INIT.     16  u   -1024    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  reject

 SSR-router   <time server5>  active  .INIT.     16  u   - 1024    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  reject

 

 

The reject Tally Code and 0 value for Poll indicates the ntp servers are not reachable and/or responding.

Symptoms

Time is not syncing in the deployment

Incorrect peer path status and authentication errors

Bandwidth metrics and site reports say there are no issues with WAN connectivity

ISP carrier for the area checked and there were no issues found.

The sites are all experiencing slowness according to local IT

Solution

To confirm, drop to the shell and try the following:

# ntpdate -u time.google.com

 

Then at pcli run the following again:

# show ntp

Wed 2025-04-09 14:24:13 UTC

 Retrieving NTP information...

 

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Node            Time Source     Status  Ref. ID  Stratum  Type  When  Poll  Reach   Delay  Offset  Jitter  Tally Code

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SSR-Router   <time server1>     active  .STEP.        16  u     -64      0   0.000   0.000   0.000  reject

SSR-Router   <time server2>     active  .STEP.        16  u     -64      0   0.000   0.000   0.000  reject

SSR-Router   <time server3>  active  .STEP.        16  u     -64      0   0.000   0.000   0.000  reject

SSR-Router   <time server4>     active  .STEP.        16  u     -64      0   0.000   0.000   0.000  reject

SSR-Router   <time server5>   active  .STEP.        16  u     -64      0   0.000   0.000   0.000  reject

SSR-Router  *216.239.35.0   active  .GOOG.     1  u     2       64      1  34.286   2.396   2.027  syspeer

 

This confirms there is no problem with SSR itself and connectivity to the time servers should be troubleshot.

Modification History

2025-04-10 : Article Created