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July 1, 2015

Technical Note: Configuring a FortiGate unit as a NTP server

  • July 1, 2015
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Description
This article addresses the configuration of a FortiGate unit as a NTP server.

Solution
When you configure system time from the System Information dashboard widget, you can configure the FortiGate unit to be a NTP server. As part of the NTP server configuration, you can select one or more interfaces on which to listen for NTP requests. Among the Fortinet products, only FortiGate can currently be configured as a NTP server.

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CLI Configuration
config system ntp
set ntpsyn enable
set server-mode enable
set interface port1
end
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