Users Guide

Version Description
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000-ON.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
9.0.2.0 Introduced on the S6000.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
7.6.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
7.5.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series.
6.1.1.0 Introduced on the E-Series.
Usage Information The following describes the show ntp status command shown in the Example below.
Field Description
“Clock is...” States whether or not the switch clock is synchronized, which NTP stratum the system
is assigned and the IP address of the NTP peer.
“frequency is...” Displays the frequency (in ppm), stability (in ppm) and precision (in Hertz) of the clock in
this system.
“reference time
is...”
Displays the reference time stamp.
“clock offset is...” Displays the system offset to the synchronized peer and the time delay on the path to
the NTP root clock.
“root dispersion
is...”
Displays the root and path dispersion.
“peer mode is...” State what NTP mode the switch is. This should be Client mode.
Example
Dell# show ntp status
Clock is synchronized, stratum 2, reference is 100.10.10.10
frequency is -32.000 ppm, stability is 15.156 ppm, precision is 4294967290
reference time is BC242FD5.C7C5C000 (10:15:49.780 UTC Mon Jan 10 2000)
clock offset is clock offset msec, root delay is 0.01656 sec
root dispersion is 0.39694 sec, peer dispersion is peer dispersion msec
peer mode is client
Dell#
Related Commands
• show ntp associations — displays information on the NTP master and peer configurations.
1598 System Time and Date