GarrettCom Magnum MNS-6K - Manual (Page 45)

M A G N U M 6 K S W I T C H E S , M N S - 6 K U S E R G U I D E
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Daylight savings location name : USA
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F IGURE 30 -
Setting the system daylight saving time
See Appendix 3 for additional information on Daylight Savings Time. The lists of countries for the time
zone are
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, London,
Namibia, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, USA
Network time
Many networks synchronize the time using a Network time server. The network time
server provides time to the different machines using the Simple Network Time Protocol
(SNTP). To specify the SNTP server, one has to
1) Set the IP parameters on the switch
2) Define the SNTP parameters
To set the SNTP parameter, enter the SNTP configuration mode from the manager. The
‘setsntp, sync, sntp’ commands can then be used to setup the time synchronization
automatically from the SNTP server. Note it is not sufficient to setup the SNTP variables.
Make sure to setup the synchronization frequency as well as enable SNTP. The list of
relevant commands is listed below.
Syntax setsntp server = timeout = <1-10> retry = <1-3>
Syntax sync [hour=<0-24>] [min=<0-59>] (default = 24 hours)
The time zone and daylight savings time information have to be set
for SNTP server to set the proper time
Syntax sntp [enable|disable]
For example, to set the SNTP server to be 204.65.129.201
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(with a time out of 3 seconds
and a number of retries set to 3 times); allowing the synchronization to be ever 5 hours, the
following commands are used
2 There are number of public NTP servers. Search on the internet using ‘NTP Servers’ yields the necessary server IP addresses.