Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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AT-S63 Management Software Menus Interface User’s Guide

Section I: Basic Operations

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3. From the System Configuration menu, type 8 to select Configure

System Time.

The Configure System Time menu is shown in Figure 10 on page 68.

4. Type 3 to select SNTP Server to enter the IP address of an SNTP

server.

Note

If the switch is obtaining its IP address and subnet mask from a
DHCP server, you can configure the DHCP server to provide the
switch with an IP address of an NTP or SNTP server. If you
configured the DHCP server to provide this address, then you do not
need to enter it here, and you can skip ahead to step 5.

The following prompt is displayed:

Enter SNTP server IP address ->

5. Enter an IP address of an SNTP or NTP server.

6. Type 4 to select UTC Offset to specify the difference between the UTC

and local time.

Note

If the switch is using DHCP, it automatically attempts to determine
this value. In this case, you do not need to configure a value for the
UTC Offset parameter.

The following prompt is displayed:

Enter UTC Offset [-12 to 12] -> 0

7. Enter a UTC Offset time.

The default is 0 hours. The range is -12 to +12 hours.

8. Type 5 to select Daylight Savings Time (DST) to enable or disable the

switch’s ability to adjust its system time to daylight savings time. The
following prompt is displayed:

Adjust

for Daylight Savings Time (E - Enabled, D - Disabled) -

>

9. Type E to enable daylight savings time and allow the switch to adjust

system time to daylight savings time. This is the default value. Type D
to disable daylight savings time and not allow the switch to adjust
system time to daylight savings time.

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