Setting The System Clock - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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Setting the system clock

To display information about SNTP status, enter the following command.
BigIron RX# show sntp status
Clock is unsynchronized, stratum = 0, no reference clock
precision is 2**0
reference time is 0
clock offset is 0.0
root dispersion is 0.0
Syntax: show sntp status
The following table describes the information displayed by the show sntp status command.
TABLE 40
This field...
unsynchronized
synchronized
stratum
reference clock
precision
reference time
clock offset
root delay
root dispersion
peer dispersion

Setting the system clock

In addition to SNTP support, the device also allows you to set the system time counter. It starts the
system time and date clock with the time and date you specify. The time counter setting is not
retained across power cycles and is not automatically synchronized with an SNTP server.
NOTE
To synchronize the time counter with your SNTP server time, enter the sntp sync command from the
Privileged EXEC level of the CLI.
NOTE
Unless you identify an SNTP server for the system time and date, you will need to re-enter the time
and date following each reboot.
For more details about SNTP, refer to
page 121.
To set the system time and date to 10:15:05 on October 15, 2005, enter the following command.
BigIron RX# clock set 10:15:05 10-15-05
Syntax: [no] clock set <hh:mm:ss> <mm-dd-yy> | <mm-dd-yyyy>
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.0
msec, root delay is 0.0
msec, peer dispersion is 0.0
Output from the show sntp status command
Indicates...
System is not synchronized to an NTP peer.
System is synchronized to an NTP peer.
NTP stratum level of this system
IP Address of the peer (if any) to which the unit is synchronized
Precision of this system's clock (in Hz)
Reference time stamp
Offset of clock to synchronized peer
Total delay along the path to the root clock
Dispersion of the root path
Dispersion of the synchronized peer
"Specifying a Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) server"
msec
msec
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