Chapter 7 Basic Setting

Figure 26 Basic Setting > General Setup

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 9 Basic Setting > General Setup

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

System Name

Choose a descriptive name for identification purposes. This name consists of up to

 

64 printable characters; spaces are allowed.

 

 

Location

Enter the geographic location of your Switch. You can use up to 32 English

 

keyboard characters; spaces are allowed.

 

 

Contact Person's

Enter the name of the person in charge of this Switch. You can use up to 32 English

Name

keyboard characters; spaces are allowed.

 

 

Use Time Server

Enter the time service protocol that your timeserver uses. Not all time servers

when Bootup

support all protocols, so you may have to use trial and error to find a protocol that

 

works. The main differences between them are the time format.

 

When you select the Daytime (RFC 867) format, the Switch displays the day,

 

month, year and time with no time zone adjustment. When you use this format it is

 

recommended that you use a Daytime timeserver within your geographical time

 

zone.

 

Time (RFC-868)format displays a 4-byte integer giving the total number of

 

seconds since 1970/1/1 at 0:0:0.

 

NTP (RFC-1305)is similar to Time (RFC-868).

 

None is the default value. Enter the time manually. Each time you turn on the

 

Switch, the time and date will be reset to 1970-1-1 0:0:0.

 

 

Time Server IP

Enter the IP address of your timeserver. The Switch searches for the timeserver for

Address

up to 60 seconds. If you select a timeserver that is unreachable, then this screen

 

will appear locked for 60 seconds. Please wait.

 

 

Current Time

This field displays the time you open this menu (or refresh the menu).

 

 

New Time

Enter the new time in hour, minute and second format. The new time then appears

(hh:min:ss)

in the Current Time field after you click Apply.

 

 

Current Date

This field displays the date you open this menu.

 

 

New Date (yyyy-

Enter the new date in year, month and day format. The new date then appears in

mm-dd)

the Current Date field after you click Apply.

 

 

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