RBMS Plus Installation and Opera
RBMS Plus Installation and Operation Manual
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NTP Setup (6)
The RBMS Plus can set its internal clock from any Internet time server that supports network time protocol (NTP).
There are many such servers around the world. Many of these servers are operated by government standards
organizations. Most private networks also have time servers.
The RBMS Plus is shipped with the NTP configuration set to get the time from two different US National Institute of
Standards (NIST) time servers. The IP addresses of these servers can be changed in the NTP configuration. If the time
server addresses are not configured or the RBMS Plus is unable to contact either time server, the RBMS Plus will
initialize the time to 00:00:00 1/1/2008. If communication is not established with a time server, the internal clock will
run from this point.
The time provided by most time servers is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The RBMS Plus will convert this to local time
using a time offset that can be entered in the NTP configuration.
