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General Steps for Running a Time Protocol on the Switch: . . . . . . . . 9-3
Disabling Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
SNTP: Viewing, Selecting, and Configuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Menu: Viewing and Configuring SNTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
CLI: Viewing and Configuring SNTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Viewing the Current SNTP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Configuring (Enabling or Disabling) the SNTP Mode . . . . . . . . . 9-10
TimeP: Viewing, Selecting, and Configuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16
Menu: Viewing and Configuring TimeP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17
CLI: Viewing and Configuring TimeP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18
Viewing the Current TimeP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19
Configuring (Enabling or Disabling) the TimeP Mode . . . . . . . . 9-20
SNTP Unicast Time Polling with Multiple SNTP Servers . . . . . . . . 9-25
Displaying All SNTP Server Addresses Configured on the Switch . . 9-25
Adding and Deleting SNTP Server Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-26
Menu: Operation with Multiple SNTP Server Addresses
Configured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-26
SNTP Messages in the Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-26
10 Port Status and Configuration
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Menu: Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
CLI: Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . 10-8
Viewing Port Status and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
Customizing the Show Interfaces Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12
Note on Using Pattern Matching with the “Show Interfaces Custom”
Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13
Viewing Port Utilization Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13
Viewing Transceiver Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-14
Enabling or Disabling Ports and Configuring Port Mode . . . . . . . . . 10-15
Enabling or Disabling Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-17
