Time service

Your storage system supports two different time service protocols, time and ntp.

Your storage system supports two different time service protocols:

TIME protocol (also known as rdate) is specified in the RFC 868 standard. This standard allows for time services to be provided on TCP or UDP port 37. Your storage system uses only UDP port 37.
Simple network time protocol (NTP) is specified in the RFC 2030 standard and is provided only on UDP port 123.

When your storage system has option timed.enable set to on and a remote protocol (rdate or ntp) is specified, the storage system synchronizes to a network time server.

If the timed.enable option is set to off , your storage system is unable to synchronize with the network time server using NTP. The rdate time protocol can still be used by manually issuing the rdate command from your storage system console.

You should set the timed.enable option to on in a cluster configuration.

Parent topic: IP port usage on a storage system