Service Manual

Table Of Contents

Field Description

“Clock is...” States whether or not the switch clock is synchronized, which NTP stratum the

system is assigned and the IP address of the NTP peer.

“frequency is...” Displays the frequency (in ppm), stability (in ppm) and precision (in Hertz) of the

clock in this system.

“reference time

is...”

Displays the reference time stamp.

“clock offset

is...”

Displays the system offset to the synchronized peer and the time delay on the path

to the NTP root clock.

“root dispersion

is...”

Displays the root and path dispersion.

“peer mode is...” State what NTP mode the switch is. This should be Client mode.

Example

Dell# show ntp status

Clock is synchronized, stratum 2, reference is 100.10.10.10

frequency is -32.000 ppm, stability is 15.156 ppm, precision is

4294967290

reference time is BC242FD5.C7C5C000 (10:15:49.780 UTC Mon Jan 10 2000)

clock offset is clock offset msec, root delay is 0.01656 sec

root dispersion is 0.39694 sec, peer dispersion is peer dispersion msec

peer mode is client

Dell#

Commands

● show ntp associations — displays information on the NTP master and peer configurations.

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