Set The Hardware Clock With The Time Derived From Ntp - Dell Force10 MXL Blade Configuration Manual

To specify an NTP server, use the following command.
Task
Specify the NTP server to which the Dell Force10 system will
synchronize.
To display the system clock state with respect to NTP, use the
Privilege mode
Figure 34-2. show ntp status Command Example (with respect to NTP)
FTOS(conf)#do show ntp status
Clock is synchronized, stratum 2, reference is 192.168.1.1
frequency is -369.623 ppm, stability is 53.319 ppm, precision is 4294967279
reference time is CD63BCC2.0CBBD000 (16:54:26.049 UTC Thu Mar 12 2012)
clock offset is 997.529984 msec, root delay is 0.00098 sec
root dispersion is 10.04271 sec, peer dispersion is 10032.715 msec
peer mode is client
To display the calculated NTP synchronization variables received from the server that the system will use
to synchronize its clock, use the
Figure 34-3. show ntp associations Command Example
FTOS(conf)#do show ntp associations
remote
==========================================================================
#192.168.1.1
* master (synced), # master (unsynced), + selected, - candidate

Set the Hardware Clock with the Time Derived from NTP

To set the hardware clock with the time value derived from NTP, use the following command:
Task
Periodically update the system hardware clock with the time
value derived from NTP
Figure 34-4. Displaying the Calculated NTP Synchronization Variables
FTOS(conf)#do show calendar
11:08:48 UTC Tue May 22 2012
FTOS(conf)#ntp update-calendar 1
FTOS(conf)#do show calendar
11:10:02 UTC Tue May 22 2012
598
| System Time and Date
(Figure 34-2).
show ntp associations
ref clock st when poll reach
.LOCL. 1
(Figure 34-4).
Command
ntp server ip-address
show ntp status
command from EXEC Privilege mode
delay offset
16 16 76 0.98
Command
ntp update-calendar
Command Mode
CONFIGURATION
command from EXEC
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