Configuring the Time and Date in Gaia Portal

Important - On Scalable Platforms, you must connect to the Gaia Portal of the applicable Security Group.

Step

Instructions

1

From the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.

2

Click Set Time and Date.

3

Click Set Time and Date manually.

4

Enter the time and date in the applicable fields.

5

Click OK.

Best Practice - For redundancy, configure more than one NTP server, or configure an NTP Pool.

Step

Instructions

1

From the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.

2

Click Set Time and Date.

3

Click Set Time and Date automatically using Network Time Protocol (NTP).

4

Click Add.

5

In the Type field, select Server.

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In the Address field, enter the Hostname or IP address of the NTP server.

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In the Version field, select the NTP version of this server.

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Click Save.

9

If you have two or more NTP servers / pools configured, then in the Preferred Server field, select the applicable NTP server / pool.

10

Click OK.

Best Practice - For redundancy, configure an NTP Pool.

An NTP Pool uses one IP address to represent a group of NTP servers.

Step

Instructions

1

From the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.

2

Click Set Time and Date.

3

Click Set Time and Date automatically using Network Time Protocol (NTP).

4

Click Add.

5

In the Type field, select Pool.

6

In the Address field, enter the Hostname or IP address of the NTP pool.

7

In the Version field, select the NTP version of this pool.

8

Click Save.

9

If you have two or more NTP pools / servers configured, then in the Preferred Server/Pool field, select the applicable NTP pool / server.

10

Click OK.

Step

Instructions

1

From the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.

2

Click Set Time and Date.

3

Click Set Time and Date automatically using Network Time Protocol (NTP).

4

Click the applicable entry.

5

Click Edit.

6

Configure the applicable settings.

7

Click Save.

8

Click OK.

Step

Instructions

1

From the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.

2

Click Set Time and Date.

3

Click Set Time and Date automatically using Network Time Protocol (NTP).

4

Click the applicable entry.

5

Click Remove.
6

Click Yes to confirm.

7

Click OK.

Step

Instructions

1

From the navigation tree, click System Management > Time.

2

Click Set Time Zone.

3

Select the time zone from the list.

4

Click OK.