Time and date

CLI Guide | Forcepoint Appliances | v8.4.x

All servers in your deployment that host TRITON Architecture components must be synchronized to within 2 minutes. Use of an NTP server is recommended.


Action and Syntax	Details
View the system date and time. show system clock	The time and date format is: yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss
Set system time and date manually. set system clock --date <yyyy/mm/dd> --time <hh:mm:ss>	Stop all Forcepoint services before changing the time. Then, set the time and make certain that the time is consistent across all servers running services. Finally, start appliance services. If you do not stop the Forcepoint services first, client updates and policy changes entered after the time reset are not saved. Note that instead of setting the time manually, you can synchronize with a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. See "set system ntp" below.
View the configured time zone. show system timezone	Example: (view)# show system timezone Timezone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
View supported timezone formats. show system timezone-list	Example: (view)# show system timezone-list Index Zone Name ------------------------ 1 (GMT-11:00) Midway Island, Samoa 2 (GMT-10:00) Hawaii 3 (GMT-09:00) Alaska ...
Set the timezone for this appliance. set system timezone --zone <zone_name> --index <zone_index>	Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the default, is also known as Universal Time, Coordinated (UTC). Other time zones are calculated by adding or subtracting from GMT. GMT is sometimes chosen to provide a common time stamp for geographically distributed systems. Zone: The name of the timezone. Enter the name of the timezone in quotation marks. Case-sensitive. Index: The number assigned to the timezone. Example of setting the timezone using the zone name: (config)# set system timezone --zone "Central Time" (config)# show system timezone Timezone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time(US & Canada) Example of setting the timezone using the zone index number: (config)# set system timezone --index 9 (config)# show system timezone Timezone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) To see a timezone index list, use: show system timezone-list
View the configured NTP servers. show system ntp
Configure timezone synchronization with up to 3 NTP servers. set system ntp --status <enabled\|disabled> --server <server1> [<server2>,<server3>]	To synchronize with a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server (www.ntp.org.), set the status to "enabled" and enter the address of a primary NTP server. The secondary and tertiary servers are optional. If you synchronize the system clock with an NTP server, NTP protocol packets and their response packets must be allowed on any firewall or NAT device between an appliance and the NTP server. Ensure that you have outbound connectivity to the NTP servers. Add a firewall rule that allows outbound traffic to UDP port 123 for the NTP server. If interface C on an appliance is not connected to the Internet, then you must provide a way for interface C to reach an NTP server. One solution is to install an NTP server on the local network where interface C can reach it. Status: enabled or disabled. Server: The server to synchronize with. Example: (config)# set system ntp --status enabled --server 1.us.pool.ntp.org,2.us.pool.ntp.org,3.pool.ntp.org
Synchronize the time with the NTP servers. sync system ntp	Use this command to manually synchronize the time with the NTP servers.