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NetApp AltaVault Cloud Integrated Storage Administration Guide
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Configuring system administrator settings
Configuring date and time
Current NTP status
Brief status information appears just below the Use NTP Time Synchronization button. The label Current NTP server
is followed by either a server name or nothing if no NTP server is active.
This information appears after an NTP server name:
Authentication information; “unauthenticated” appears after the server name when it is not using authentication.
When the system has no NTP information about the current server, nothing appears.
When you configure an NTP server pool, the current NTP server that appears after the label Current NTP server never
matches the hostname of the server pool.
NTP MD5-based authentication
NTP authentication verifies the identity of the NTP server sending timing information to the AltaVault. The system
supports MD5-based Message-Digest Algorithm symmetric keys for NTP authentication. MD5 is a widely used
cryptographic hash function that produces a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value.
NTP authentication is
optional
.
Configuring NTP authentication involves these steps that you can perform in any order:
Configure a key ID and a secret pair.
Configure the NTP server with the key ID.
NTP servers
NetApp recommends synchronizing the AltaVault to an NTP server of your choice.
To add an NTP server
1.
Choose Configure > Date and Time.
2.
Under Requested NTP Servers, complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control
Description
Add a New NTP Server
Displays the controls to add a server.
Hostname or IP Address
Specify the hostname or IP address for the NTP server.
Version
Select the NTP server version from the drop-down list: 3 or 4.
Enabled/Disabled
Select Enabled from the drop-down list to connect to the NTP server. Select Disabled
from the drop-down list to disconnect from the NTP server.
Key ID
Specify the MD5 key identifier to use to authenticate the NTP server. The valid range is
1 to 65534. The key ID must appear on the trusted keys list.
Add
Adds the NTP server to the server list.
Remove Selected
Select the check box next to the name and click
Remove Selected
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