Dell PowerConnect FCS624S Configuration Guide - Page 66

2 Configuring basic system parameters NOTE Dell PowerConnect devices do not retain time and date information across power cycles. Unless you want to reconfigure the system time counter each time the system is reset, Dell PowerConnect recommends that you use the SNTP feature. To identify an SNTP server with IP address 208.99.8.95 to act as the clock reference for a Dell PowerConnect device, enter the following. PowerConnect(config)# sntp server 208.99.8.95 Syntax: sntp server | [] The parameter specifies the SNTP version the server is running and can be from 1 - 4. The default is 1. You can configure up to three SNTP servers by entering three separate sntp server commands. By default, the Dell PowerConnect device polls its SNTP server every 30 minutes (1800 seconds). To configure the Dell PowerConnect device to poll for clock updates from a SNTP server every 15 minutes, enter the following. PowerConnect(config)# sntp poll-interval 900 Syntax: [no] sntp poll-interval To display information about SNTP associations, enter the following command. PowerConnect# show sntp associations address ref clock st ~207.95.6.102 0.0.0.0 16 ~207.95.6.101 0.0.0.0 16 * synced, ~ configured when 202 202 poll 4 0 delay 0.0 0.0 disp 5.45 0.0 Syntax: show sntp associations The following table describes the information displayed by the show sntp associations command. TABLE 7 Output from the show sntp associations command This field... Displays... (leading character) address ref clock st when poll delay disp One or both of the following: * Synchronized to this peer ~ Peer is statically configured IP address of the peer IP address of the peer reference clock NTP stratum level of the peer Amount of time since the last NTP packet was received from the peer Poll interval in seconds Round trip delay in milliseconds Dispersion in seconds To display information about SNTP status, enter the following command. 24 PowerConnect B-Series FCX Configuration Guide 53-1002266-01