Chapter 1 About this guide........................................................................... 19
Applicable products..................................................................................................................................19
Switch prompts used in this guide........................................................................................................... 19
Chapter 2 Time Protocols..............................................................................20
General steps for running a time protocol on the switch..........................................................................20
TimeP time synchronization.......................................................................................................... 20
SNTP time synchronization...........................................................................................................20
Selecting a time synchronization protocol................................................................................................21
Disabling time synchronization................................................................................................................ 21
SNTP: Selecting and configuring............................................................................................................. 21
Viewing and configuring SNTP (Menu)......................................................................................... 22
Viewing and configuring SNTP (CLI).............................................................................................24
Configuring (enabling or disabling) the SNTP mode.......................................................... 26
TimeP: Selecting and configuring............................................................................................................ 31
Viewing, enabling, and modifying the TimeP protocol (Menu)...................................................... 31
Viewing the current TimeP configuration (CLI)..............................................................................33
Configuring (enabling or disabling) the TimeP mode......................................................... 34
SNTP unicast time polling with multiple SNTP servers............................................................................37
Displaying all SNTP server addresses configured on the switch (CLI)......................................... 38
Adding and deleting SNTP server addresses............................................................................... 38
Adding addresses...............................................................................................................38
Deleting addresses.............................................................................................................38
Operating with multiple SNTP server addresses configured (Menu)....................................................... 39
SNTP messages in the Event Log........................................................................................................... 39
Network Time Protocol (NTP).................................................................................................................. 39
Commands....................................................................................................................................39
timesync Command.........................................................................................................39
timesync ntp....................................................................................................................... 40
ntp...................................................................................................................................... 40
[no] ntp............................................................................................................................... 40
ntp enable...........................................................................................................................41
ntp authentication............................................................................................................... 41
ntp authentication key-id ................................................................................................... 42
ntp max-association........................................................................................................... 43
ntp server........................................................................................................................... 44
ntp server key-id.................................................................................................................45
ntp ipv6-multicast............................................................................................................... 46
debug ntp........................................................................................................................... 46
ntp trap............................................................................................................................... 47
show ntp statistics.............................................................................................................. 48
show ntp status.................................................................................................................. 48
show ntp associations........................................................................................................ 49
show ntp authentication......................................................................................................50
Validation rules................................................................................................................... 51
Event log messages........................................................................................................... 53
Chapter 3 Port Status and Configuration.....................................................55
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