Select the Clock server tab of the Configuration page to configure the clock service settings.

Mandatory: Yes.

Connection timeout

The maximum period allowed for establishing a connection with the chrony client.

Mandatory: No. This optional value defaults to 1 second.

Poll interval

The period between successive connections to the crony client for checking the clock health.

Mandatory: Yes.

Maximum allowed error

The maximum allowed time difference between the Timestamping Authority clock and the chrony client. When the difference exceeds the selected period, The Timestamping Authority solution:

  1. Considers that the clock is not valid (bad clock).
  2. Logs an error when trying to timestamp data.

See below for the main fields on the recorded error log.

Error log field

Value

​level

info​

msg

ProcessTimeStampRequest.Failed

tsa-log.tsa-pkistatus-string 

TimeNotAvailableTSError

cause.cause.cause.msg

BadClock

Mandatory: Yes.