Hi,
I'm hoping that this is a silly question.
I've recently built a new NTP server environment, with 2 GNSS devices, and using an external Stratum 1 service. Where the local appliances are configured as the preferred sources,
(I'm aware that two is not the ideal, but hardware was bought before I was given the project to implement).
With end users/clients connecting to three peered servers running as Stratum 2.
My question is whether there is an option to stop using a particular source if its stratum drops below an expected value. I suspect that the answer is that it's not needed, but I just wanted to get some clarity for my own understanding.
For reference, this is what running 'chronyc sources' looks like from one of the servers: (I apologise for the formatting, server names have been changed)
^+ Appliance1.> 1 10 377 257 -37us[ -37us] +/- 1310us
^* Appliance2.> 1 10 377 585 -16us[ -23us] +/- 1263us
=- Peer2 2 8 377 343 +8024ns[+8024ns] +/- 1856us
=- Peer3 2 10 377 888 +22us[ +22us] +/- 2444us
^- ntp0.external 2 9 377 427 +1310us[+1310us] +/- 14ms
^- ntp1.external 1 10 377 251 -290us[ -290us] +/- 3734us
^- ntp2.
external 2 10 377 991 -294us[ -301us] +/- 11ms
^- ntp3.
external 1 10 377 375 +23us[ +23us] +/- 6145us
^- ntp4.
external 1 10 377 156 -1634us[-1634us] +/- 9992us
Regards,
Simon