If you wish to check the NTP status on RSA AM 8.1 you can run a useful Linux utility as follows:

Log into the appliance using SSH

ntpq -p

However, this utility runs based on the configuration found in /etc/ntp.conf.

Now due to IPV6 support being partially on in RSA AM 8.1, and for other reasons in order to make it work properly add the following lines to the ntp.conf

restrict -6 ::1
restrict ::1

Then you simply restart ntp as follows:

service ntp restart

...and your query to the configured ntp server will return information regarding the server and offsets. The output will look something like this:

remote           refid                 st t   when poll reach   delay   offset      jitter

===================================================================

w.x.y.z             .LOCL.              1 u   57       64  377        0.313  245903.   7.716
a.b.c.d             192.168.10.25 2 u   56       64  377        0.536  245894.   6.630

Note

If you have set RSA AM to sync time with the VMWare host then this utility will not properly query the VMWare host unless you add its IP address of the VMHost into the /etc/ntp.conf as a time server.