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August 25, 2015

Technical Note: How to configure Ubuntu pointing to FortiGate as NTP server

  • August 25, 2015
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Description
This article explains how to configure Ubuntu pointing to FortiGate as NTP server.

Scope
Ubuntu, NTP.

Solution
Ubuntu

1) Install NTP daemon :
sudo apt-get install ntp

2) Configure NTP servers
sudo nano /etc/ntp.conf
server <Fortigate-IP/hostname>

3) Restart ntp daemon
sudo service ntp restart

FortiGate
config system ntp
    set server-mode enable
    set interface <interface-name>
end

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