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MULTINET4 MULTI-PORT SERIAL SERVER & MANAGED SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 4: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
4.2.4
Time
The following screens enable you to configure and preserve accurate time on your system.
4.2.4.1 Time: Time and Date
This screen allows you to configure the system time and date.
FIGURE 4–3: Administration: Time: Time and Date
The table below specifies the values that can be entered in the Time and Date screen.
Note the following features of the time and date functionality:
• When the system is first powered up, the time and date is undefined.
• The Multinet4 has an onboard RTC with a full battery backup.The RTC will preserve
the current time and date for the life of the battery.
Table 4–2: System: Status
Field Name
Field Value
System Memory Utilization:
The percentage of dynamic system memory currently in use.
Ethernet-CPU Buffer Utilization:
The software maintains a fixed size queue of buffers for
received ethernet frames. This parameter is the percentage of
these buffers currently holding a received frame that has not
yet been processed by the IP stack or other network application.
Ethernet-CPU Rx Drops:
The number of ethernet frames that were dropped due to
queue overflow.
Table 4–3: Time and Date
Field Name
Field Value
Time:
The current time of day in the 24-hour
hh:mm:ss
format.
Date:
The current date in the format
mm/dd/yyyy.