Enable an NTP Service
You must configure a Network Time Protocol (NTP) service on each node in your
cluster. Most operating systems include the ntpd
service for time
synchronization.
RHEL 7 compatible operating systems use chronyd
by default instead
of ntpd
. If chronyd
is running (on any OS),
Cloudera Manager uses it to determine whether the host clock is synchronized.
Otherwise, Cloudera Manager uses ntpd
.
To use ntpd
for time synchronization: