Ntp Configuration - Planet IGSW-24040T User Manual

4.2.6 NTP Configuration

Configure NTP on this page.
NTP is an acronym for Network Time Protocol, a network protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems. NTP
uses UDP (data grams) as transport layer. You can specify NTP Servers and set GMT Time zone. The NTP Configuration
screen in Figure 4-2-8 appears.
The page includes the following fields:
Object
 Mode
 Timezone

Server #
Buttons
: Click to save changes.
: Click to undo any changes made locally and revert to previously saved values.
Figure 4-2-8 NTP Configuration Page Screenshot
Description
Indicates the NTP mode operation. Possible modes are:
Enabled: Enable NTP mode operation. When enable NTP mode operation, the
agent forward and to transfer NTP messages between the clients and the server
when they are not on the same subnet domain.
Disabled: Disable NTP mode operation.
Allow select the time zone according to current location of switch.
Provide the NTP IPv4 or IPv6 address of this switch. IPv6 address is in 128-bit
records represented as eight fields of up to four hexadecimal digits with a colon
separates each field (:). For example, 'fe80::215:c5ff:fe03:4dc7'. The symbol '::' is
a special syntax that can be used as a shorthand way of representing multiple
16-bit groups of contiguous zeros; but it can only appear once. It also used a
following legally IPv4 address. For example, '::192.1.2.34'.
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