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
- 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 .
- From the Home panel, click the Customize
settings link in the Step 1: Set up the appliance section.
- Expand Date and Time.
- Select the correct time zone from the The current
time zone is drop-down menu.
- Click Click to add to add a new
NTP server. By default, no NTP servers are configured.
- 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.
- Click the remove icon (
) to delete an NTP server.
Results
You have defined an NTP server to maintain clock synchronization
across the appliances in your collective.