Cisco Cisco Packet Data Gateway (PDG)
NTP Configuration Mode Commands
server ▀
Command Line Interface Reference, StarOS Release 18 ▄
7503
server
Configures a Network TIme Protocol (NTP) server for use by the local NTP client in synchronizing the system clock.
Product
All
Privilege
Security Administrator, Administrator
Mode
Exec > Global Configuration > NTP Configuration
configure > ntp
Entering the above command sequence results in the following prompt:
[local]host_name(config-ntp)#
Syntax
server ip_address [ prefer ] [ version number ] [ minpoll poll_period ] [ maxpoll
poll_period ]
poll_period ]
no server ip_address
no
Indicates the server specified is to be removed from the list of NTP servers for clock synchronization.
ip_address
Specifies the IP address of the NTP server to be used for clock synchronization in IPv4 dotted-decimal or
IPv6 colon-separated-hexadecimal notation.
NTP should be configured for at least three external NTP servers. With three or more servers, outlyers and
broken or misconfigured servers can be detected and excluded. Generally, the more servers the better (within
reason).
IPv6 colon-separated-hexadecimal notation.
NTP should be configured for at least three external NTP servers. With three or more servers, outlyers and
broken or misconfigured servers can be detected and excluded. Generally, the more servers the better (within
reason).
prefer
Indicates the NTP server specified to be the preferred server. Only one server can be set to preferred. The
preferred server is the first one contacted for clock synchronization.
preferred server is the first one contacted for clock synchronization.
Important:
Use of the
prefer
keyword is not recommended.
Important:
Do not change the version, minpoll or maxpoll keyword settings unless instructed to do so by Cisco
TAC.