Below provides the basic commands for configuring the date, time and NTP on your Juniper SRX gateway.
Configure the Time Zone
system time-zone Europe/London
Configure NTP
set system ntp server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org prefer
set system ntp server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org
set system ntp server 2.uk.pool.ntp.org
Set the Time/Date
set date ntp 0.uk.pool.ntp.org
Confirm
[email protected]> show ntp status
status=0644 leap_none, sync_ntp, 4 events, event_peer/strat_chg,
version=”ntpd 4.2.0-a Thu Feb 14 03:06:23 UTC 2008 (1)”,
processor=”i386″, leap=00, stratum=2,
precision=-20, rootdelay=170.961, rootdispersion=21.583, peer=46724,
refid=172.17.27.46,
reftime=cbc2b0d7.b5d026c0 Wed, Apr 30 2008 10:48:23.710, poll=6,
clock=cbc2b0ef.b402b32b Wed, Apr 30 2008 10:48:47.703, state=4,
offset=18.736, frequency=58.615, jitter=1.425, stability=0.080
Reference
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB15756
Gotcha
When running the command ‘run show ntp status‘ you receive the following error.
This issue arises when the firewall filter (that is applied to the loopback interface) denies the traffic. Further details can be found at the following link.
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB11436
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