Network Time Protocol Management Menu
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Network Time Protocol Management Menu

To access the NTP management menu, connect to a switch via a console or telnet session and
enter NTP at the system prompt. If you are in verbose mode, or enter a question mark (?) at
the prompt, the following screen is displayed:
Command NTP Management Menu
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Ntconfig Enter the NTP configuration menu
Ntinfo Enter the NTP information menu
Ntstats Enter the NTP statistics menu
Ntadmin Enter the NTP administration menu
Ntaccess Enter the NTP access control menu
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Ntconfig. This command accesses the NTP configuration menu, which allows you to configure
this NTP device, add or remove peer associations, add an NTP server, configure this NTP
device’s broadcast time, and set or change this NTP device’s fudge factor. See NTP Configura-
tion Menu on page 12-6 for more information on the NTP configuration menu.
Ntinfo. This command accesses the NTP information menu, which allows you to view a list of
all peers for this NTP device, display a list of peers with summary information (in two differ-
ent formats), display detailed information for one or more peers, and display local server
information. See NTP Information Menu on page 12-15 for more information.
Ntstats. This command accesses the NTP statistics menu, which allows you to view the statis-
tics for the loop filter, peer memory usage, I/O subsystem, local server, event time subsystem,
packet counts, leap second state, clock status, monitoring routines data. See NTP Statistics
Menu on page 12-23 for more information.
Ntadmin. This command accesses the NTP administration menu, which allows you to set the
receive timeout, set an encryption delay, specify a remote NTP server, set a password and key
ID for this NTP device, set and clear a system flag, and restart the NTP software. See NTP
Administration Menu on page 12-33 for more information.
Ntaccess. This command accesses the NTP access control menu, which allows you to change
the authentication key ID for request and control messages, reinitalize the key ID list, add a
key ID to or remove a key ID from the trusted list, display the state of the authentication
code, create or remove restrict and add flags to an entry, view a servers restriction list,
remove a restriction entry from this NTP device, and configure, remove or view traps set in
the server. See NTP Access Control Menu on page 12-36 for more information.