ZyXEL Communications MGS3600-24F User Manual page 114

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6.3.2 NTP
Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronizes local clocks across a network based on UTC/GMT. To configure the device to use NTP:
1. Click System > Time
2. Select Use NTP Server, enter the
3. Click the NTP submenu. The
4. Enter an NTP server IP address in Server1. Repeat this step for up to 4 more NTP server IP addresses.
5. Click Save.
Note:
If you use NTP mode and select the built-in NTP time server or manually specify a user-defined NTP server along with a time zone, the
switch will sync the time shortly after pressing the
time periodically without user intervention.
Note:
You must enter the Time Zone Offset
local time from the time zone offset and the NTP time. The time zone range is from -12 to +13 in steps of 1 hour. The default time zone off-
set is +8 hours relative to UTC/GMT.
Parameter description
Server 1 to 5:

Use these fields to enter the IPv4 or IPv6 IP addresses of the NTP servers.
An IPv6 address is a 128-bit value represented by eight colon-separated hexadecimal strings of four digits. An example address is
'fe80::215:c5ff:fe03:4dc7'. The double colon symbol '::' is a shorthand way of representing multiple strings of contiguous zeros, but it can
only appear once. The double colon symbol can also be used to represent an IPv4 address. For example, '::192.1.2.34'.
MGS3600-24F/XGS3600-26F/XGS3600-28F
> Manual. The Time Configuration
Time Zone Offset
NTP Configuration screen appears.
Apply
in System >
screen appears.
and then click Save.
button. Though it synchronizes the time automatically, NTP does not update the
Time > Manual before performing a time sync via NTP because the switch will calculate
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