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Poll Interval (60-86400)
— Defines the interval (in seconds) at which the SNTP server is polled for
Unicast information.
Receive Broadcast Servers Updates
— Polls the SNTP servers for Broadcast server time
information on the selected interfaces.
Receive Anycast Servers Updates
— Polls the SNTP server for Anycast server time information,
when enabled. If both the
Receive Anycast Servers Update
, and the
Receive Broadcast Servers
Update
fields are enabled, the system time is set according the Anycast server time information.
Receive Unicast Servers Updates
— Polls the SNTP server for Unicast server time information,
when enabled. If the
Receive Broadcast Servers Updates
,
Receive Anycast Servers Updates
, and
the
Receive Unicast Servers Updates
fields are all enabled, the system time is set according the
Unicast server time information.
Poll Unicast Servers
— Sends SNTP Unicast forwarding information to the SNTP server, when
enabled.
Defining SNTP Global Parameters Using CLI Commands
The following table summarizes the equivalent CLI commands for setting fields displayed in the
SNTP Global Settings
page
.
The following is an example of the CLI commands:
Defining SNTP Authentication Methods
The
SNTP Authentication
page enables SNTP authentication between the and an SNTP
server. The means by which the SNTP server is authenticated is also selected in the
SNTP
Authentication
page. Click
System
→
SNTP
→
Authentication
in the tree view to open the
SNTP
Authentication
page.
Table 6-16. SNTP Global Parameters CLI Commands
CLI Command Description
sntp broadcast client enable Enables SNTP broadcast clients
sntp anycast client enable Enables SNTP anycast clients
sntp unicast client enable Enables SNTP predefined unicast clients
console> enable
console# configure
console(config)# sntp anycast client enable