Time Protocols

SNTP: Viewing, Selecting, and Configuring

second or third server, you must use the CLI. For more on SNTP operation with multiple servers, refer to “SNTP Unicast Time Polling with Multiple SNTP Servers” on page 9-25.

Syntax: timesync sntp

Selects SNTP as the time synchronization method.

Syntax: sntp unicast

Configures the SNTP mode for Unicast operation.

Syntax: sntp server <ip-addr> [version]

Specifies the SNTP server. Server version values are between 1 and 7. The default server version is 3.

Syntax: sntp server priority <1 - 3 >

Specifies the order in which the configured SNTP servers are

 

polled for getting the time. Value is between 1 and 3.

 

Syntax: [no] sntp server priority <1-3> <ip-address> [oobm] [version]

 

Use the no version of the command to disable SNTP.

 

priority specifies the order in which the configured SNTP serv-

 

ers are polled for the time; allowable values are 1 through 3.

 

ip-addressis an IPv4 or IPv6 address of an SNTP server.

 

For switches that have a separate out-of-band management

 

port, oobm specifies that SNTP traffic goes through that port.

 

(By default, SNTP traffic goes through the data ports.)

 

version is the protocol version of the SNTP server. Allowable

 

values are 1 through 7; default is 3.

 

Syntax: no sntp server < ip-addr>

 

Deletes the specified SNTP server.

 

 

N o t e

Deleting an SNTP server when only one is configured disables SNTP unicast

 

operation.

 

For example, to select SNTP and configure it with unicast mode and an SNTP

 

 

server at 10.28.227.141 with the default server version (3) and default poll

 

interval (720 seconds):

 

ProCurve(config)# timesync sntp

 

Selects SNTP.

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