Enabling And Disabling The Sntp Client; Defining Sntp Client Poll Interval; Defining Sntp Client Constant Offset To Gmt - Patton electronics SmartNode Series Software Configuration Manual

SmartWare Software Configuration Guide

Enabling and disabling the SNTP client

The SNTP client is disabled as default and has to be enabled if clock synchronization shall be used. This proce-
dure describes how to enable or disable the SNTP client
Mode: Configure
Step Command
1 node (cfg)#[no] sntp-client Enables the SNTP client operation. Using the no command syntax dis-
Example: Enabling the SNTP client operation
SN(cfg)#sntp-client
Example: Disabling the SNTP client operation
SN(cfg)#no sntp-client
Defining SNTP client poll interval
Specifies the seconds between each SNTP client request in unicast or anycast mode.
This SNTP client poll interval can be defined to be within in the range from 1 to 4'294'967'295. The default
value is 60 seconds.
This procedure describes how to set the SNTP client poll interval
Mode: Configure
Step
1 node (cfg)#sntp-client poll-interval value Sets the SNTP client poll interval to value seconds
Example: Setting the SNTP client poll interval
In the following example the SNTP client poll interval is set to 30 seconds.
SN(cfg)#sntp-client poll-interval 30
Defining SNTP client constant offset to GMT
Setting the offset of the SmartNode 1000, 2000 or 4000 series device local time zone from Greenwich Mean
Time is required if the local time shall be used for time dependent routing decisions or other reasons. Green-
wich Mean Time (GMT) is also known as Zulu Time and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), refer to http://
greenwichmeantime.com/ for more details and information about your time zone and offset to GMT.
Note Be aware that summertime offset is not automatically adjusted!
This procedure describes how to set the SNTP client local time zone offset from GMT
SNTP client configuration task list
ables this feature.
Command
19 • SNTP client configuration
Purpose
Purpose
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