Dell Force10 MXL Blade - Set the Hardware Clock with the Time Derived from NTP

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To specify an NTP server, use the following command.
To display the system clock state with respect to NTP, use the show ntp status command from EXEC
Privilege mode (Figure 34-2).
Figure 34-2. show ntp status Command Example (with respect to NTP)
To display the calculated NTP synchronization variables received from the server that the system will use
to synchronize its clock, use the
show ntp associations command from EXEC Privilege mode (Figure 34-3).
Figure 34-3. show ntp associations Command Example
Set the Hardware Clock with the Time Derived from NTP
To set the hardware clock with the time value derived from NTP, use the following command:
Figure 34-4. Displaying the Calculated NTP Synchronization Variables
Task Command Command Mode
Specify the NTP server to which the Dell Force10 system will
synchronize.
ntp server ip-address CONFIGURATION
Task Command Command Mode
Periodically update the system hardware clock with the time
value derived from NTP (Figure 34-4).
ntp update-calendar
CONFIGURATION
FTOS(conf)#do show ntp status
Clock is synchronized, stratum 2, reference is 192.168.1.1
frequency is -369.623 ppm, stability is 53.319 ppm, precision is 4294967279
reference time is CD63BCC2.0CBBD000 (16:54:26.049 UTC Thu Mar 12 2012)
clock offset is 997.529984 msec, root delay is 0.00098 sec
root dispersion is 10.04271 sec, peer dispersion is 10032.715 msec
peer mode is client
FTOS(conf)#do show ntp associations
remote ref clock st when poll reach delay offset disp
==========================================================================
#192.168.1.1 .LOCL. 1 16 16 76 0.98 -2.470 879.23
* master (synced), # master (unsynced), + selected, - candidate
FTOS(conf)#do show calendar
11:08:48 UTC Tue May 22 2012
FTOS(conf)#ntp update-calendar 1
FTOS(conf)#do show calendar
11:10:02 UTC Tue May 22 2012