Admin Guide

Table Of Contents
Variable definitions
Use the data in the following table to use the ntp server command.
Variable Value
A.B.C.D Specifies the IP address of the NTP server.
auth-enable Activates MD5 or SHA1 authentication on this Network Time
Protocol (NTP) server. Without this option, the NTP server will
not have any authentication by default.
authentication-key <0-2147483647> Specifies the key ID value used to generate the MD5 or SHA1
digest for the NTP server. The default authentication key is 0,
which indicates disabled authentication.
source-ip WORD <0-46> Specifies the source IP for the server. If you do not configure
source-ip, by default, the source-ip entry is initialized to 0.0.0.0.
The IP address specified can be any local interface.
enable Activates the NTP server. To set this option to the default value,
use the default operator with the command.
Configuring authentication keys
About this task
Configure NTP authentication keys to use MD5 or SHA1 authentication.
Procedure
1. Enter Global Configuration mode:
enable
configure terminal
2. Create an authentication key:
ntp authentication-key <1-2147483647> WORD<0–8> [type <md5|sha1>]
3. Enable MD5 or SHA1 authentication for the server:
ntp server <A.B.C.D> auth-enable
4. Assign an authentication key to the server:
ntp server <A.B.C.D> authentication-key <0-2147483647>
Example
Switch:1> enable
Switch:1# configure terminal
Create the authentication key:
Switch:1#(config)# ntp authentication-key 5 test type md5
NTP configuration using ACLI
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