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Administration utility page 229
• Serial console settings . Specifies that the serial console should be used as if it were
a telnet session. After you restart the operating system of your Matrox Iris GT,
most of the POST messages will not appear in your serial console. Instead, you
will be prompted to press
Enter and will be able to interact with your Matrox
Iris GT through your serial console as if it were a regular telnet session.
SNTP and mail client page
The SNTP and mail client page allows you to configure the simple network time
protocol (SNTP) for your Matrox Iris GT. SNTP synchronizes the system time
on a computer with that of a server that has been synchronized by a reference
source.
• SNTP client settings . Specifies the SNTP settings for your Matrox Iris GT.
Field name Description
Enable console processor on serial console Specifies whether the serial console should be used as if it were a telnet session.
Automatically respond to message box with default button Specifies that any message box that should pop up, due to a serial console
message, will not pop up, and instead the default action will be taken.
Disable GUI message box Specifies that any message box that should pop up on your desktop should
appear as a text message on the serial console instead.
Button name Description
Update serial console settings Accepts changes made for the serial console. Note that the operating system must be restarted for changes
to take effect.
Field name Description
Enable SNTP Specifies whether SNTP should be enabled.
SNTP server domain name Specifies the name of a server that provides the timing signal for SNTP.
Synchronization refresh period Specifies the number of msecs that your Matrox Iris GT should wait before trying to connect to the SNTP
server and verify the time and date. Refreshing the time of your Matrox Iris GT too often is a waste of
bandwidth resources.
Synchronization retry delay Specifies the number of msecs that your Matrox Iris GT should wait before it tries to connect to the SNTP
server after the previous attempt failed.
Synchronization threshold Specifies the acceptable interval, in msecs, between the time on the SNTP server and the current time. If the
difference between the SNTP server time and the current time is less than the SNTP threshold, the current
time on your Matrox Iris GT is not updated.
Button name Description
Change SNTP settings Accepts changes made for the SNTP server.