Overview: Selecting A Time Synchronization Protocol Or Turning Off Time Protocol Operation; General Steps For Running A Time Protocol On The Switch; Disabling Time Synchronization - SMC Networks SMC6624M Management Manual

Configuring IP Addressing, Time Synchronization, Interface Access, and System Information
Overview: Selecting a Time Synchronization Protocol
or Turning Off Time Protocol Operation

General Steps for Running a Time Protocol on the Switch:

1. Select the time synchronization protocol: SNTP or TimeP (the default).
2. Enable the protocol. The choices are:
SNTP: Broadcast or Unicast
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TimeP: DHCP or Manual
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3. Configure the remaining parameters for the time protocol you selected.
The switch retains the parameter settings for both time protocols even if
you change from one protocol to the other. Thus, if you select a time
protocol the switch uses the parameters you last configured for the
selected protocol.
Note that simply selecting a time synchronization protocol does not enable
that protocol on the switch unless you also enable the protocol itself (step 2,
above). For example, in the factory-default configuration, TimeP is the
selected time synchronization method. However, because TimeP is disabled
in the factory-default configuration, no time synchronization protocol is run-
ning.

Disabling Time Synchronization

You can use either of the following methods to disable time synchronization
without changing the Timep or SNTP configuration:
In the System Information screen of the Menu interface, set the Time Sync
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Method parameter to None, then press [Enter], then [S] (for Save).
In the config level of the CLI, execute no timesync.
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Time Synchronization Protocol Options
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