NTP in kickstart

[Dynamax]

Hi,

Im trying to set the UK keyboard in my ks script and nothing seems to get accepted tried the following

keyboard uk

keyboard United Kingdom

keyboard "United Kingdom"

esxcli system settings keyboard layout United Kingdom

I also have the issue that I put all my NTP information in the ntp.conf file but then once I log into the client the ntp daemon isnt running, Ive added the /etc/inet.d/ntpd start also.

any ideas?

thanks

[Dynamax]

I managed to work out the UK keyboard issue but any ideas on NTP?

[tigerdeccan]

try this on powerCLi

Add-VMHostNtpServer -VMHost MYHost -NtpServer  ntp.mydomain.com

[Sreejesh_D]

check /var/log/vmkernel.log and /var/log/syslog.log for errors when ntp service is starting.

what happens when you start NTP through vSphere client?

[Dynamax]

It works fine starting it in the client.

the ntp.conf has all the config from the ks script so there must be something im missing that doesnt start it from the script

[Sreejesh_D]

Please post the snippet of NTP config part from the KS file.

[Dynamax]

cat > /etc/ntp.conf << __NTP_CONFIG__

restrict default kod nomodify notrap noquery nopeer

restrict 127.0.0.1

server 10.15.11.179

server 10.115.11.179

__NTP_CONFIG__

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 ntpd on

/etc/init.d/ntpd start

[Sreejesh_D]

in KS file, have you donethe changes in firewall ton enable ntpclient ?

esxcli network firewall set --default-action false --enabled yes

esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id ntpClient --enabled yes

http://thomaslowblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/esxi-50-kickstart-installation-part-3.html

[Dynamax]

Hi

Yes I done that setting, all it does is check the NTP Client option but it doesnt start the service or populate the NTP server addresses.

[cryton2707]

what line did you use to set the keyboard in the ks?

[Dynamax]

esxcli system settings keyboard layout set -l "United Kingdom"