Administrator Guide

Switch Management Commands 1882
Default Configuration
The default polling interval is 64 seconds.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
If a user enters a value which is not an exact power of two, the nearest power-
of-two value is applied.
Example
The following example sets the polling time for the Simple Network Time
Protocol (SNTP) client to 1024 seconds.
console(config)# sntp client poll timer 1024
sntp server
Use the sntp server command in Global Configuration mode to configure an
SNTP server address or a host name. The server address can be either an IPv4
address or an IPv6 address. Use the no form of this command to unconfigure
an SNTP server address or a host name.
Syntax
sntp server {ip-address | ipv6-address | hostname} [priority priority][key
key_id][poll]
no sntp server {ip-address | ipv6-address | hostname}
• ip-address — IP address of the server.
• hostname — Hostname of the server. (Range: 1-158 characters)
• priority—The relative priority of the SNTP server (Range 1-8).
• poll—Enable SNTP server polling.
• key_id—The index of the authentication key to send to the SNTP server
(Range 1-4294967295).