Would you like to learn how to set date and time using NTP on an HP Switch? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to configure date and time using NTP on HP Switch using the web interface.

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Tutorial HP Switch - NTP configuration

Open a browser software, enter the IP address of your Switch and access the HP Switch web interface.

HP Switch Login

On the prompt screen, enter the administrative login information.

Factory default access information:
Username: admin
Password: (no password)

After a successful login, the administrative menu will be displayed.

Access the Device menu, and select the System Time option.

hp switch - system time

On the system time screen, select the Net Time tab on the top of the screen.

Enter the IP address of the desired NTP server and set the pool interval time, in seconds.

Don't forget to configure the correct timezone. (GMT)

hp switch - ntp

In our example, the switch configured to use the NTP server 200.160.0.8.

In our example, the switch configured to update the date and time every 64 seconds.

Click on the Apply button to finish the configuration.

hp switch - date

Go back to the System and Time tab, and check if the date and time were updated.

If the system showed the correct date and time, this means that you followed all the steps correctly.