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Unit Configuration: Basics
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Fig. 4–3. Different Rules May Apply for Daylight Savings Time in one Time Zone.
SNTP: Setting the Clock Automatically
See your IT Administrator to find out if a Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) server is in use.
Multi-Media units on a LAN can benefit from the automatic setting. It is accurate to within a fraction
of a second.
1. Obtain the IP address of an SNTP server. You have the option of also obtaining the
address of an alternate server.
2. Using View, select a unit whose clock needs to be set.
3. Start a
Maintenance Session.
4. Click the Time tab.
5. If Automatic is not selected, click it. The Time tab appears as in figure
4–2.
6. Click the Primary SNTP Server box and type the IP address of an SNTP server obtained
in step 1. You have the option of indicating an alternate in the Alternate SNTP Server
box.
7. Click Refresh. The Multi-Media unit contacts the SNTP server and synchronizes the Multi
clock to the SNTP time.
8. You have the option of ending the maintenance; see
Ending Maintenance, p. 62.
Auto-synch statistics
The statistics appear are for
Multi technical support, if they make a service call to your site. The
Auto-synch statistics do not apply to a clock set to Manual.
Last Synchronized at. Latest time that the SNTP server was used. Synchronization to SNTP occurs
at least every 24 hours.
Time Difference. Accuracy of synchronization.