McAfee SG310 Administration Manual page 325

System menu features
System Setup Menu
Manually setting the appliance date and time
Use this procedure to manually set the date and time of your appliance. If your appliance does not have a
hardware clock, the recommended method for setting the date and time is using network time. See
Enabling the NTP time server. In rare circumstances, it may be desirable for the time on the appliance not
to be synchronized to a PC or NTP server, which is when you can use the manual configuration method to
artificially set the appliance to any time between 2002 and 2030.
From the System menu, click System Setup and select the Date and Time tab. The Set Date and Time
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page appears.
Select the Year, Month, Date, Hour, and Minute from the lists.
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Click the lower Set Date and Time. An action successful message is displayed and the time is set to your
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selections.
Enabling the NTP time server
Use this procedure to configure the Network Time Protocol (NTP) services on the UTM Firewall appliance.
The appliance can make use of an NTP server or peer running the NTP to provide for time synchronization
across a network. The appliance uses NTP version 4.0.
Be sure to set the Locality correctly before enabling the NTP features of the UTM Firewall appliance. See
Setting locality for instructions.
From the System main menu, click System Setup > Date and Time and select the NTP Time Server
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tab. The NTP Time Server page appears
Figure 328 NTP TIme Server tab
In the NTP Time Server pane, select the Enabled checkbox.
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[Optional] Select the Set time quickly checkbox if you want the NTP server to set the time as quickly
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as possible after startup.
Click Submit. You can now add an NTP server or peer. See
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Synchronizing clocks to the UTM Firewall appliance
Local hosts can synchronize their clocks to the UTM Firewall appliance by specifying the IP address of their
appliance as their network time server in the Windows Date and Time Properties dialog box.
Prerequisite: The host running Windows must not be connected to a domain controller.
McAfee UTM Firewall 4.0.4 Administration Guide
(Figure 328).
Adding an NTP server and Adding an NTP peer.
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