Setup Guide

Conguring a Custom-dened Period for NTP time
Synchronization
You can congure the system to send an audit log message to a syslog server if the time dierence from the NTP server is greater than a
threshold value (oset-threshold). However, time synchronization still occurs. To congure the oset-threshold, follow this procedure.
• Specify the threshold time interval before which the system generates an NTP audit log message if the system time deviates from the
NTP server.
CONFIGURATION mode
ntp offset-threshold threshold-value
The range for threshold-value is from 0 to 999.
DellEMC(conf)#ntp offset-threshold 9
Conguring NTP control key password
The Network Time Protocal daemon (NTPD) design uses NTPQ to congure NTPD. NTP control key supports encrypted and unencrypted
password options. The ntp control-key- passwd command authenticates NTPQ packets. The default control-key-passwd
authenticates the NTPQ packets until the user changes the control-key using the ntp control-key- passwd command.
To congure NTP control key password, use the following command.
Congure NTP control key password.
CONFIGURATION mode
ntp control-key-passwd [encryption-type] password
Dell EMC Networking OS Time and Date
You can set the time and date using the Dell EMC Networking OS CLI.
Conguration Task List
The following is a conguration task list for conguring the time and date settings.
• Setting the Time and Date for the Switch Software Clock
• Setting the Timezone
• Setting Daylight Saving Time Once
• Setting Recurring Daylight Saving Time
Setting the Time and Date for the Switch Software Clock
You can change the order of the month and day parameters to enter the time and date as time day month year. You cannot delete the
software clock.
The software clock runs only when the software is up. The clock restarts, based on the hardware clock, when the switch reboots.
To set the software clock, use the following command.
System Time and Date
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