On 23/06/2012 06:38, Andrew Miehs wrote: > Agreed - If it were only me, I too would run a couple of boxes, but this > is an enterprise site. > > Unfortunately the team here has little unix know how which is why I am > looking for appliances. The plan is that all the network infracture and > wireless gear - mostly cisco would use these servers - so no more than > 10000 devices - would like something with a stable clock however. We > have already had some authentication issues due to times being in the > future.
On the face of it, I'd say that appliances with a support contract were by far the most appropriate tools for this sort of application. If you're having authentication issues (presumably with OTP systems), then this will have a direct financial implication to the company. If you have 10k networking device client devices, then the annualised 5Y TCO (or whatever your depreciation period) of a distributed cluster of several accurate NTP servers will be relatively very small. Nick _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
