Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S380 User Guide

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AsyncOS 8.1 for Cisco Web Security User Guide

Chapter 21 Perform System Administration Tasks

System Date and Time Management

Your Web Security appliance can track the current date and time by querying a Network Time Protocol
(NTP) server or you can manually set the system date and time. The system date and time reflects the
time zone, which you can set either by GMT offset or by global region, country, and then local time zone.

Setting the Time Zone

Step 1

Choose System Administration > Time Zone.

Step 2

Click Edit Settings.

Step 3

Select your region, country, and time zone or select the GMT offset.

Step 4

Submit and commit the changes.

Synchronizing the System Clock with an NTP Server

Step 1

Choose System Administration > Time Settings.

Step 2

Click Edit Settings.

Step 3

Select Use Network Time Protocol as the Time Keeping Method.

Step 4

Enter the fully qualified hostname or IP address of the NTP server, clicking Add Row as needed to add
servers.

Step 5

(Optional) Choose the routing table associated with an appliance network interface type, either
Management or Data, to use for NTP queries. This is the IP address from which NTP queries should
originate.

Note

This option is only editable if the appliance is using split routing for data and management
traffic.

Step 6

Submit and commit your changes.

Deleting an NTP Server from the Configuration

Step 1

Choose System Administration > Time Settings.

Step 2

Click Edit Settings.

Step 3

Click the garbage can icon to the right of the server name to delete it.

Step 4

Submit and commit your changes.