Managing date and time settings

Use Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers to maintain a synchronized time and date across the appliances in your collective.

Before you begin

You must be assigned the Appliance administration permission to perform these steps.

About this task

Configuring a NTP server is important when you are using a collective. The NTP server helps to correlate the log files between the different appliances in the collective, ensuring that the dates and times in the log entries are consistent.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Settings panel. To manage your date and time settings, navigate to the Settings panel using one of the following methods:
    • From the menu bar at the top of the WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance user interface, navigate to Appliance > Settings.
    • From the Home panel, click the Customize settings link in the Step 1: Set up the appliance section.
  2. Expand Date and Time.
  3. Select the correct time zone from the The current time zone is drop-down menu.
  4. Click Click to add to add a new NTP server. By default, no NTP servers are configured.
  5. Click and drag the name of the server to reorder your NTP servers. The first available NTP server in the list is used to maintain synchronization.
  6. Click the remove icon (the remove icon) to delete an NTP server.
  7. Restart the appliance for your changes to become effective. For more information, see Shutting down or restarting the appliance from the user interface

Results

You have defined an NTP server to maintain clock synchronization across the appliances in your collective.