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In this best practice, we implemented Network Time Protocol (NTP). The NTP synchronizes the clocks on the servers for the time to be consistent across all databases.
Overview
NTP is used to synchronize clocks between computer systems using the network. In implementing NTP our Oracle database servers will be synchronized which is important for analyzing the systems, scheduling jobs, and perhaps implementing Oracle Real Application Clusters. This is a configuration best practice as the goal is to have all our database servers synchronized from the same NTP server.
Additional resources
For more information about NTP, see Red Hat documentation at Configuring Basic System Settings, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8