Meinberg LANTIME, Operating Instructions Manual

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Administrative functions
In the first section there are several functions which may be used by the
administrator. The button “Reboot Lantime” is restarting the system, the built-in
reference clock is not affected by this, only the included computer system is rebooted,
which may take up to 30 seconds.
With “Manual configuration“ you are able to change the main configuration by
editing the configuration file by hand. After editing, press the “Save file” button to
preserve your changes, afterwards you are asked if your changes should be activated
by reloading the configuration (this results in reloading several subsystems like
NTPD, HTTPD etc.).
The function “Send test notification“ is generating a test alarm message and sends it
using all configured notify possibilities (e-mail, WMail, SNMP-Traps, wall mount
display).
You can use the function “Save NTP drift file“ to copy the file /etc/ntp.drift to the
internal flash disc of your LANTIME. NTP is using this file to have the parameters
for compensation of the incorrectness of the system clock available directly after a
restart. This results in a faster synchronisation process of the NTPD subsystem after a
system restart. You should use this function only, if the NTPD has been synchronized
to the internal reference clock for more than one day. This is done here at Meinberg
directly before shipping the LANTIME unit to our customers, so you do not need to
use this function during normal operation. It may be applicable after a software
update.
The function “Reset to factory defaults“ is setting all configuration parameters back
to default values. The regular file /mnt/flash/global_configuration will be replaced
with the file /mnt/flash/factory.conf, but first a copy of the configuration is saved
under /mnt/flash/global_configuration.old for backup reasons. The default password
“timeserver” is replacing the actual password, too. After using this function, all
certificates should be recreated because of the change of the unit’s hostname.
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