Question : How do I configure NTP daemon to start on System Boot for an AIX Box?

I'm using AIX 5.1 and I think I have NTP pointed to an Internet time server.  My questions are:

1) How do I setup NTP daemon to start on System Boot?

2) How can I verify that NTP is actually accessing the external time server?

Answer : How do I configure NTP daemon to start on System Boot for an AIX Box?

I do not have a system running AIX 5.1 to check against, but on AIX 5.2 the ntp function is in bos.net.tcp.client - you can check whether this is true for you with the following command:

lslpp -cf bot.net.tcpip.client | grep ntp

The configuration is in /etc/ntp.conf and xntpd is started by uncommenting a line in /etc/rc.tcpip. To see if it is working, use this:

lssrc -s xntpd

To check further, run "xntpdc" - you will get a command prompt - type "?" for the commands. In addition, you can see messages in your syslog output from xntpd.