Set NTP Time Server AND NTP Version = 3 using Add-VMHostNtpServer ?

[Casper42]

All the examples of Add-VMHostNtpServer I can find in documentation and Blogs show how to add a Time Server.

But I can't find anyone successfully scripting the extra argument of "version 3"

Example entry with argument.

/etc/ntp.conf

...

server 192.168.0.10 version 3

Ideas?

[LucD]

Afaik you can't do that with any CLI.

The reason is the the underlying UpdateDateTimeConfig method has no option to specify the NTP version.

[Casper42]

Just heard back from a co-worker who did some testing for me.

He says:

Just tested in my lab, and add-vmhostntpserver just stuffs whatever is in the ntpserver argument into the ntp.conf file without any checking, so you can add in the extra info like this.

Add-VmHostNtpServer -NtpServer "<new ntp server> version 3"

So apparently you can add this entry from PowerCLI.

Will leave this open for a few days to see if anyone else can confirm and/or provide extra details.