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Click Apply and the console server appliance will perform a soft reboot and start upgrading the firmware. This process will take several minutes.
After the firmware upgrade completes, click here to return to the Management Console. Your console server will have retained all its pre-upgrade
configuration information.
11.3 Configure Date and Time
We recommend that you set the local Date and Time in the console server as soon as it is configured. Features like Syslog and NFS logging use the
system time for time-stamping log entries, while certificate generation depends on a correct Timestamp to check the validity period of the
certificate.
Figure 11-5. Set date and time.
Select the System: Date & Time menu option.
Manually set the Year, Month, Day, Hour and Minute using the Date and Time selection boxes, then click Apply.
The gateway can synchronize its system time with a remote time server using the Network Time Protocol (NTP). Configuring the NTP time server
ensures that the console server clock will be accurate soon after the Internet connection is established. Also if NTP is not used, the system clock will
reset randomly every time the console server is powered up. To set the system time using NTP:
Select the Enable NTP checkbox on the Network Time Protocol page.
Enter the IP address of the remote NTP Server and click Apply.
You must now also specify your local time zone so the system clock can show local time (and not UTP):
Set your appropriate region/locality in the Time Zone selection box and click Apply.
11.4 Configuration Backup
We recommend that you back up the console server configuration whenever you make significant changes (such as adding new Users or Managed
Devices) or before performing a firmware upgrade.
Select the System: Configuration Backup menu option or click the
icon.
NOTE: You can also back up the configuration files from the command line (refer to Chapter 14).