Defining A Ntp Neighbor Configuration - Motorola RFS7000 Series System Reference Manual

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2. Select the Symmetric Key
3. Click the Add button.
4. Enter a Key ID between 1-65534. The
multiple passwords. This makes password migration easier and more secure between the switch and
its NTP resource.
5. Enter the authentication
system time to the switch.
6. Select the Trusted Key
key is known, but cannot be securely obtained. Adding a trusted key allows data to be considered
secure between the switch and its SNTP resource.
7. Refer to the Status
The Status is the current state of the requests made from the applet. Requests are any "SET/GET"
operation from the applet. The Status field displays error messages if something goes wrong in the
transaction between the applet and the switch.
8. Click OK to save and add the changes to the running configuration and close the dialog.
9. Click Cancel to close the dialog without committing updates to the running configuration.

5.3.3 Defining a NTP Neighbor Configuration

The switch's SNTP association can be either a neighboring peer (the switch synchronizes to another associated
device) or a neighboring server (the switch synchronizes to a dedicated SNTP server resource). Refer to the
NTP Neighbor tab to assess the switch's existing configurations (both peer and server) and, if necessary,
modify the attributes of an existing peer or server configuration or create a new neighbor peer or server SNTP
configuration.
To review the switch's existing NTP neighbor configurations:
1. Select Services
tab.
Key ID
Key Value used to secure the credentials of the NTP server providing
checkbox to use a trusted key. A trusted key should be used when a public
field.
> Secure NTP from the main menu tree.
is a abbreviation allowing the switch to reference