Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch Setting the SSR Name, Setting SSR Date and Time, Configuring NTP

Chapter 1: SSR Product Overview

•Configuring DNS

•Connecting between the SSR and other systems

Setting the SSR Name

The SSR name is set to ssr by default. You may customize the name for the SSR by entering the following command in Configure mode:

Set the SSR name.

system set name <system-name>

Setting SSR Date and Time

The SSR system time can keep track of time as entered by the user or via NTP. To configure the SSR date and time manually, enter the following command in Enable mode:

Set SSR date and time.

system set date year <year> month <month>

day <day> hour <hour> min <min> second <sec>

Configuring NTP

You can use the ntp set server command to instruct the SSR’s NTP client to periodically synchronize its clock. By default, the SSR specifies an NTPv3 client that sends a synchronization packet to the server every 60 minutes. This means the SSR will attempt to set its own clock against the server once every hour. The synchronization interval as well as the NTP version number can be changed.

Note: To ensure that NTP has the correct time, you need to specify the time zone, as well. You can set the time zone by using the system set timezone command. When specifying daylight saving time, you’ll need to use the system set daylight- saving command.

To configure the SSR’s NTP client to synchronize its clock, enter the following command in Configure mode:

Instruct SSR’s NTP server to periodically synchronize clock

ntp set server <host> [interval <minutes>] [source <ipaddr>] [version <num>]

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