Configuring The System Time; Configuring The System Time In The Web Interface - HP A-F1000-E Getting Started Manual

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Configuring the system time

NOTE:
The firewall modules synchronize the time with the NTP server (a primary networking device installed
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with a firewall module) through NTP. The system time resets to 12:00:00, 26, April, 2000 each time it
starts, and is synchronized to the correct time after the system starts up.
• After a firewall module is configured with NTP synchronization, it sends a NTP time request every 64
seconds. If it finds that its time is asynchronous with the NTP server, the firewall module synchronizes its
time with the NTP server in a few minutes.
The configurations about
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Configuring the system time in the web interface

System time overview
System time allows you to display and set the device system time on the Web interface. The device
supports setting system time through manual configuration and automatic synchronization of NTP server
time.
An administrator can by no means keep time synchronized among all the devices within a network by
changing the system clock on each device, because this is a huge amount of workload and cannot
guarantee the clock precision.
Defined in RFC 1305, the Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronizes timekeeping among distributed
time servers and clients. NTP allows quick clock synchronization within the entire network and ensures a
high clock precision so that the devices can provide diverse applications based on the consistent time.
Viewing the current system time
Select Device Management > System Time from the navigation tree, and you will enter the System Time
tab page, as shown
Figure 60 System time page
Use the command...
sysname sysname
system time
are suitable for the firewall chassis.
inFigure 60. The current system time of the device is displayed on the page.
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Remarks
Optional
The device name depends on the
device model.