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Configuring the NTP Boot Server

When you boot a C-series platform, it issues an ntpdate request, which polls a network server to determine the local date and time. Configure a server that the system uses to determine the time when the system boots. Otherwise, NTP cannot synchronize to a time server if the server's time is very far off the local system's time.

To configure the NTP boot server:

  1. From configuration mode, access the configuration statement that configures NTP.
  2. [edit]
    
    user@host# edit system ntp
    
    
    
  3. Specify the address or hostname of the network NTP server.
  4. [edit system ntp]
    
    user@host# set boot-server address 
    
    
    
    For example:
    
    
    
    [edit system ntp]
    
    user@host# set boot-server 192.0.2.20
    
    
    

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