HP Procurve Switches – Internet SNTP

These are the steps used to get procurve up and using internet NTP servers. I used Chicago NTP server from NIST server’s list http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi. The Time zone is in minutes, so central is –6 * 60 minutes is –360. Being in a Daylight Savings Time(DST) area I added DST rule also. On the firmware I had the default was operating mode is broadcast. That will need to be switched to Unicast to route to an internet NTP server. Make sure your routes are setup if you require routing to NTP servers.

sntp server priority 1 208.66.175.36 3

sntp unicast

time timezone –360

time daylight-time-rule Continental-US-and-Canada

timesync sntp