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Installs and configures ntp as a client or server

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NTP Cookbook

Installs and configures ntp. On Windows systems it uses the Meinberg port of the standard NTPd client to Windows.

About Testing

In addition to providing interfaces to the ntp time service, this recipe is also designed to provide a simple community cookbook with broad cross-platform support to serve as a testing documentation reference. This cookbook utilizes Foodcritic, Test-Kitchen, Vagrant, Chefspec, bats, Rubocop, and Travis-CI to provide a comprehensive suite of automated test coverage.

More information on the testing strategy used in this cookbook is available in the TESTING.md file, along with information on how to use this type of testing in your own cookbooks.

Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Debian-family Linux Distributions
RedHat-family Linux Distributions
Gentoo Linux
FreeBSD
Windows

Cookbooks

When running on Windows based systems, the node must include the Windows cookbook. This cookbook suggests the Windows cookbook in the metadata so as to not force inclusion of the Windows cookbook on *nix systems. Change 'suggests' to 'depends' if you require Windows platform support.

Attributes

Recommended tunables

ntp['servers'] - (applies to NTP Servers and Clients)
- Array, should be a list of upstream NTP servers that will be considered authoritative by the local NTP daemon. The local NTP daemon will act as a client, adjusting local time to match time data retrieved from the upstream NTP servers.

The NTP protocol works best with at least 4 servers. The ntp daemon will disregard any server after the 10th listed, but will continue monitoring all listed servers. For more information, see Upstream Server Time Quantity at support.ntp.org.

ntp['peers'] - (applies to NTP Servers ONLY)
- Array, should be a list of local NTP peers. For more information, see Designing Your NTP Network at support.ntp.org.
ntp['restrictions'] - (applies to NTP Servers only)
- Array, should be a list of restrict lines to define access to NTP clients on your LAN.
ntp['sync_clock'] (applies to NTP Servers and Clients)
- Boolean. Defaults to false. Forces the ntp daemon to be halted, an ntp -q command to be issued, and the ntp daemon to be restarted again on every Chef-client run. Will have no effect if drift is over 1000 seconds.
ntp['sync_hw_clock'] (applies to NTP Servers and Clients)
- Boolean. Defaults to false. On *nix-based systems, forces the 'hwclock --systohc' command to be issued on every Chef-client run. This will sync the hardware clock to the system clock.
- Not available on Windows.
ntp["listen_network"] / ntp["listen"]
- String, optional attribute. Default is for NTP to listen on all addresses.
- ntp["listen_network"] should be set to 'primary' to listen on the node's primary IP address as determined by ohai, or set to a CIDR (eg: '192.168.4.0/24') to listen on the last node address on that CIDR.
- ntp["listen"] can be set to a specific address (eg: '192.168.4.10') instead of ntp["listen_network"] to force listening on a specific address.
- If both ntp["listen"] and ntp["listen_network"] are set then ntp["listen"] will always win.

Platform specific

ntp['packages']
- Array, the packages to install
- Default, ntp for everything, ntpdate depending on platform. Not applicable for Windows nodes
ntp['service']
- String, the service to act on
- Default, ntp, NTP, or ntpd, depending on platform
ntp['varlibdir']
- String, the path to /var/lib files such as the driftfile.
- Default, platform-specific location. Not applicable for Windows nodes
ntp['driftfile']
- String, the path to the frequency file.
- Default, platform-specific location.
ntp['conffile']
- String, the path to the ntp configuration file.
- Default, platform-specific location.
ntp['statsdir']
- String, the directory path for files created by the statistics facility.
- Default, platform-specific location. Not applicable for Windows nodes
ntp['conf_owner'] and ntp['conf_group']
- String, the owner and group of the sysconf directory files, such as /etc/ntp.conf.
- Default, platform-specific root:root or root:wheel.
ntp['var_owner'] and ntp['var_group']
- String, the owner and group of the /var/lib directory files, such as /var/lib/ntp.
- Default, platform-specific ntp:ntp or root:wheel. Not applicable for Windows nodes
ntp['leapfile']
- String, the path to the ntp leapfile.
- Default, /etc/ntp.leapseconds.
ntp['package_url']
- String, the URL to the the Meinberg NTPd client installation package.
- Default, Meinberg site download URL
- Windows platform only
ntp['vs_runtime_url']
- String, the URL to the the Visual Studio C++ 2008 runtime libraries that are required for the Meinberg NTP client.
- Default, Microsoft site download URL
- Windows platform only
ntp['vs_runtime_productname']
- String, the installation name of the Visual Studio C++ Runtimes file.
- Default, "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.21022"
- Windows platform only
ntp['sync_hw_clock']
- Boolean, determines if the ntpdate command is issued to sync the hardware clock
- Default, false
- Not applicable for Windows nodes
ntp['apparmor_enabled']
- Boolean, enables configuration of apparmor if set to true
- Defaults to false and will make no provisions for apparmor. If a platform is apparmor enabled by default, (currently Ubuntu) default will be true.

Usage

default recipe

Set up the ntp attributes in a role. For example in a base.rb role applied to all nodes:

name 'base'
description 'Role applied to all systems'
default_attributes(
  'ntp' => {
    'servers' => ['time0.int.example.org', 'time1.int.example.org']
  }
)

Then in an ntpserver.rb role that is applied to NTP servers (e.g., time.int.example.org):

name 'ntp_server'
description 'Role applied to the system that should be an NTP server.'
default_attributes(
  'ntp' => {
    'is_server'    => 'true',
    'servers'      => ['0.pool.ntp.org', '1.pool.ntp.org'],
    'peers'        => ['time0.int.example.org', 'time1.int.example.org'],
    'restrictions' => ['10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 nomodify notrap']
  }
)

The timeX.int.example.org used in these roles should be the names or IP addresses of internal NTP servers. Then simply add ntp, or ntp::default to your run_list to apply the ntp daemon's configuration.

undo recipe

If for some reason you need to stop and remove the ntp daemon, you can apply this recipe by adding ntp::undo to your run_list. The undo recipe is not supported on Windows at the moment.

windows_client recipe

Windows only. Apply on a Windows host to install the Meinberg NTPd client.

Development

This section details "quick development" steps. For a detailed explanation, see [[Contributing.md]].

Clone this repository from GitHub:

$ git clone git@github.com:opscode-cookbooks/ntp.git

Create a git branch
```
$ git checkout -b my_bug_fix
```
Install dependencies:
```
$ bundle install
```
Write tests
Make your changes/patches/fixes, committing appropriately
Run the tests:
- bundle exec rake
- bundle exec rake kitchen

In detail:
- Foodcritic will catch any Chef-specific style errors
- RSpec will run the unit tests
- Rubocop will check for Ruby-specific style errors
- Test Kitchen will run and converge the recipes

License & Authors

Author:: Joshua Timberman (joshua@opscode.com)
Contributor:: Eric G. Wolfe (wolfe21@marshall.edu)
Contributor:: Fletcher Nichol (fletcher@nichol.ca)
Contributor:: Tim Smith (tsmith@limelight.com)
Contributor:: Charles Johnson (charles@opscode.com)
Contributor:: Brad Knowles (bknowles@momentumsi.com)

Copyright 2009-2013, Opscode, Inc.
Copyright 2012, Eric G. Wolfe
Copyright 2012, Fletcher Nichol
Copyright 2012, Webtrends, Inc.
Copyright 2013, Limelight Networks, Inc.
Copyright 2013, Brad Knowles
Copyright 2013, Brad Beam

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

Contingent cookbooks

ntp Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the ntp cookbook.

v1.6.6 (2014-12-02)

Ensure that ntp version is captured
PR #76 - Overhauled Testing
PR #68 - Updated Leapseconds
PR #51 - Berksfile source deprecation

v1.6.5 (2014-09-25)

Ensure that ntp version is captured

v1.6.4 (2014-07-02)

Leapseconds File Expired, update to 3626380800
COOK-3887 - Trivial changes to achieve Gentoo support
COOK-1876 - ntp leapfile assumes ntpd >= 4.2.6 syntax

v1.6.2 (2014-03-19)

[COOK-4162] - change "No NTP servers specified" message to :debug

v1.6.0 (2014-02-21)

Improvement

COOK-4346 - Solaris 11 support for ntp
COOK-4339 - Disable Monitoring by Default
COOK-3604 - Enable listening on specific interfaces

Bug

COOK-4106 - Check for default content in ntp.conf
COOK-4087 - quote option in readme
COOK-3797 - Cookbook fails to upload due to 1.9.x syntax
COOK-3023 - NTP leapseconds file denied by Ubuntu apparmor profile

v1.5.4 (2013-12-29)

[COOK-4007]- update to 3612902400

v1.5.2

Bug

COOK-3797 - Add /spec to Chefignore

v1.5.0

Improvement

COOK-3651 - Refactor and clean up
COOK-3630 - Switch NTP cookbook linting from Tailor to Rubocop
COOK-3273 - Add tests

New Feature

COOK-3636 - Allow ntp cookbook to update clock to ntp servers

Bug

COOK-3410 - Remove redundant ntpdate/disable recipes
COOK-1170 - Allow redefining NTP servers in a role

v1.4.0

Improvement

COOK-3365 - Update ntp leapseconds file to version 3597177600
COOK-1674 - Add Windows support

v1.3.2

[COOK-2024] - update leapfile for IERS Bulletin C

v1.3.0

[COOK-1404] - add leapfile for handling leap seconds

v1.2.0

[COOK-1184] - Add recipe to disable NTP completely
[COOK-1298] - Refactor into a reference cookbook for testing

v1.1.8

[COOK-1158] - RHEL family >= 6 has ntpdate package

v1.1.6

Related to changes in COOK-1124, fix group for freebsd and else

v1.1.4

[COOK-1124] - parameterised driftfile and statsdir to be configurable by platform

v1.1.2

[COOK-952] - freebsd support
[COOK-949] - check for any virtual system not just vmware

v1.1.0

Fixes COOK-376 (use LAN peers, iburst option, LAN restriction attribute)

v1.0.1

Support scientific linux
Use service name attribute in resource (fixes EL derivatives)

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About Testing

Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Cookbooks

Attributes

Recommended tunables

Platform specific

Usage

default recipe

undo recipe

windows_client recipe

Development

License & Authors

Dependent cookbooks

Contingent cookbooks

ntp Cookbook CHANGELOG

v1.6.6 (2014-12-02)

v1.6.5 (2014-09-25)

v1.6.4 (2014-07-02)

v1.6.2 (2014-03-19)

v1.6.0 (2014-02-21)

Improvement

Bug

v1.5.4 (2013-12-29)

v1.5.2

Bug

v1.5.0

Improvement

New Feature

Bug

v1.4.0

Improvement

v1.3.2

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v1.0.1

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Updated December 3, 2014 Created on October 25, 2009

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