Procurve 4000M not setting clock

[Ben Hardman]

I have an issue with several 4000M's that will not set their clock. They are still showing 1990. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

[Ron Kinner · Accepted solution]

I assume you are talking about automatically via NTP or timep and not manually?

What version of code are you running?

These beasts like to use something called timep to find the time instead of NTP so you either need to have one of their funky timep servers or you need to have the newer code so you can tell it to use NTP (they call it SNTP which is a simple version of NTP but works with NTP servers). See page 42 & 43 of ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/59692375-e4.pdf
which says you need C.09.xx to run SNTP. You can get the latest code at:

http://www.hp.com/rnd/software/switches.htm


Ron

[Stuart Teo]

Ben,

4000m has both timep and sntp implemented. You can use either one of the protocol to get time for the switch. Do you have a server set up to vend time?

[Ben Hardman]

Yes, our domain controller is running as the NNTP server. The 4000's all have the latest firmware. However I do not see a setting in the telnet menu for setting a NNTP server or manually setting the time. Am I just blind?

[Ron Kinner]

From the Main Menu
2. Switch Management...
1.IP Configuration
E
Use Spacebar to select SNTP then the down arrow to get to the SNTP Mode field. Then the Spacebar to select Unicast then the right arrow key to the Server Address field. Type int he Server Address.

The manual says you have to first set the Time mode to SNTP UNICAST before it will give you the option of setting a server.

Press Enter then S to save your changes.


To set the Time manually you have to go to the command line..Page 4-14 (68 0f 304) in the basic manual ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/59692320.pdf

Main Menu
5. Diagnostics
4. Command Line

the command is:

time 12:55:00
(Expect it uses a 24 hour clock)
or
date 05/26/04
exit

Ron

[Ron Kinner]

forgot to mention. You should probably set the time and date manually so that it is very close to the server's time. Sometimes ntp will not work if the delta is too great.

Ron

[Stuart Teo]

AFAIK, the 4000m's ntp implementation works even though the time delta is great. :)