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Chapter 22: Enabling the Network Time Protocol Server
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an Internet standard protocol that synchronizes computer clock times on your network. NTP servers transmit Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, also known as Greenwich Mean Time) to their client systems. NTP sends periodic time requests to servers, using the returned time stamp to adjust its clock.
The timestamp will be used to indicate the date and time of each event in log messages.
See http://www.ntp.org for more general information on NTP.
The following sections describe how to configure the
∙Navigating to Time Protocol Settings
∙Enabling or Disabling a Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server
∙Updating Settings
Navigating to Time Protocol Settings
To enable an NTP server, navigate to the Services > Time tab, and update the fields as described below.
Figure 54: Time Setting Page