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User’s Manual of WGSD-10020 Series

4.2.6 NTP Configuration

Configure NTP on this page.

NTP

is an acronym for Network Time Protocol, a network protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems. NTP

uses UDP (data grams) as transport layer. You can specify NTP Servers and set GMT Time zone. The NTP Configuration
screen in

Figure 4-2-8

appears.

Figure 4-2-8

NTP

Configuration page screenshot

The page includes the following fields:

Object

Description

Mode

Indicates the NTP mode operation. Possible modes are:

Enabled

: Enable NTP mode operation. When enable NTP mode operation, the

agent forward and to transfer NTP messages between the clients and the server

when they are not on the same subnet domain.

Disabled

: Disable NTP mode operation.

Timezone

Allow select the time zone according to current location of switch.

Server #

Provide the NTP IPv4 or IPv6 address of this switch. IPv6 address is in 128-bit

records represented as eight fields of up to four hexadecimal digits with a colon

separates each field (:). For example, 'fe80::215:c5ff:fe03:4dc7'. The symbol '::' is

a special syntax that can be used as a shorthand way of representing multiple

16-bit groups of contiguous zeros; but it can only appear once. It also used a

following legally IPv4 address. For example, '::192.1.2.34'.

Buttons

: Click to save changes.

: Click to undo any changes made locally and revert to previously saved values.

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