System Management

In This Section:

This chapter includes procedures and reference information for system management tasks.

Time

All Security Gateways, Security Management Servers and cluster members must synchronize their system clocks. This is important for these reasons:

SIC trust can fail if devices are not synchronized correctly.
Cluster synchronization requires precise clock synchronization between members.
SmartEvent correlation uses time stamps that must be synchronized to approximately one a second.
To make sure that cron jobs run at the correct time.
To do certificate validation for applications based on the correct time.

You can use these methods to set the system date and time:

Network Time Protocol (NTP).
Manually, using the Gaia Portal, or the Gaia Clish.

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an Internet standard protocol used to synchronize the clocks of computers in a network to the millisecond.

NTP runs as a background client program on a client computer. It sends periodic time requests to specified servers to synchronize the client computer clock. Best Practice - Configure more than one NTP server for redundancy.

Setting the Time and Date - Gaia Portal

To set time and date automatically using NTP:

Step	Description
1	In the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.
2	Click Set Time and Date.
3	In the Time and Date Settings window, select Set Time and Date automatically using Network Time Protocol (NTP).
4	Enter the Hostname or IP address of the primary and (optionally) secondary NTP servers.
5	Select the NTP version for the applicable server.
6	Click OK.

To set the system time and date:

Step	Description
1	In the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.
2	Click Set Time and Date.
3	Enter the time and date in the applicable fields.
4	Click OK.

To set the time zone:

Step	Description
1	In the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.
2	Click Set Time Zone and select the time zone from the list.
3	Click OK.

Configuring NTP - Gaia Clish

Description

Configure and show the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

Syntax

To add a new NTP server:

set ntp

active {on | off}

server

primary <IP address, or Hostname of NTP Server> version {1|2|3|4}

secondary <IP address, or Hostname of NTP Server> version {1|2|3|4}
To show NTP configuration:

show ntp

active

current

servers
To delete an NTP server:

delete ntp server <IP address, or Hostname of NTP Server>

Important - After you add, configure, or delete features, run the save config command to save the settings permanently.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`active`	Shows the NTP status (enabled or disabled).
`current`	Shows the IP address or Host name of the NTP server Gaia uses right now.
`servers`	Shows the configured NTP servers.
`active {on \| off}`	Enables (`on`) or disables (`off`) NTP.
`server`	Keyword that identifies the NTP server - time server, from which Gaia synchronizes its clock. The specified time server does not synchronize to the local clock of Gaia.
`primary`	Configures the IP address or Host name of the primary NTP server.
`secondary`	Configures the IP address or Host name of the secondary NTP server.
`version {1\|2\|3\|4}`	Configures the version number of the NTP - 1, 2, 3 or 4. Best Practice - Check Point recommends that you run NTP version 3.

Example

gaia> set ntp server primary pool.ntp.org version 3

gaia> set ntp active on

gaia> show ntp servers

IP Address Type Version

pool.ntp.org Primary 3

Showing the Time & Date - Gaia Clish

Description

Show current system date and time.

Syntax

show clock

Parameters

Parameter

Description

clock

The current system day, date, and time.

The current system time is in the HH:MM:SS format.

Example

gaia> show clock

Thu Oct 6 15:20:00 2011 IST

gaia>

Setting the Date - Gaia Clish

Description

Set and show the system date.

Syntax

To configure a date:

set date <Date>
To configure the configured date:

show date

Important - After you add, configure, or delete features, run the save config command to save the settings permanently.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`<`date`>`	The date in the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Example

To configure the 10th of August 2017, run:

gaia> set date 2017-08-10

Setting the Time - Gaia Clish

Description

Set and show the system time.

Syntax

To configure the time:

set time <Time of the Day>
To show the current time:

show time

Important - After you add, configure, or delete features, run the save config command to save the settings permanently.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`<`Time of the Day`>`	The current system time in HH:MM:SS format.

Setting the Time Zone - Gaia Clish

Description

Configure and show the system time zone.

Syntax

To configure the time zone:

set timezone <Area> / <Region>

Note - The spaces before and after the slash character (/) are mandatory.
To show the configured time zone:

show timezone

Important - After you add, configure, or delete features, run the save config command to save the settings permanently.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

<Area>

Continent or geographic area.

Valid values:

Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Atlantic, Australia, Europe, Indian, Pacific

<Region>

Region within the specified area.

Examples

gaia> set timezone America / Detroit

gaia> set timezone Asia / Tokyo