Defining The Date And Time Settings Of The Agent (Time Policy) - IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Manual

Defining the Date and Time Settings of the Agent (Time Policy)

Introduction
Important impact of
saving this policy
Changing the date
and time
Enabling the
network time
protocol
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Use the Time policy to do the following:
Change the date and the time of the agent.
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Always change the date and time of your agent in the Time policy.
Important:
Changing the date and time from the command line is not supported and is not
guaranteed to work consistently.
Enable the network time protocol (NTP) to synchronize the agent time with a network
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time server.
The Time policy always contains the last manually configured values for date and time
options—not the actual date and time. When you save the policy, the agent is set to the
currently configured values, whether you have changed them or not.
To avoid inadvertently resetting the time and date to the previously
Important:
configured values, update the time and date before you save the policy.
To change the date and time:
1. In the SiteProtector Console, set up a tab to display agent policies. (See page 74.)
2. On the navigation pane, expand the Enterprise Scanner agent.
3. Select the Time policy for the agent.
4. To change the date or time, click the Date and Time arrow, and then do any of the
following:
Select the correct month and date.
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Use the arrows at the top to change the month and year in the calendar.
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Select the hour, minutes, and A.M. or P.M. in the boxes provided for the time.
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Click the Date and Time arrow to close the calendar.
Tip:
5. To change the time zone, click the Time Zone arrow, and then select the correct time
zone for your region.
To enable the network time protocol:
1. In the SiteProtector Console, set up a tab to display agent policies. (See page 74.)
2. On the navigation pane, expand the Enterprise Scanner agent.
3. Select the Time policy for the agent.
4. In the Network Time Protocol section, select the Enable NTP check box.
5. Type the server name in the Server box.
6. Save the Time policy.
7. Change the tab to an Agent view.
8. Right-click the agent or the group of agents affected by the policy change, and then
select Refresh Agent from the pop-up menu.
To ensure that the agent starts to use NTP time immediately, you must
Important:
refresh the agent. If you do not refresh the agent, NTP time does not take effect until

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