Can't Set Event Log date/time for Aironet 1100

[DanSchmidt]

We recently purchased a Cisco Airnet 1100 series Wireless Access Point. Everything is working fine on the Access Point so far (everyone can connect ok). The only problem we are having is getting the Event Log to display the correct time.

Right now the date is displaying as March 2nd. The only option I see in the Web configuration options is to change the way the time stamp is displayed (Global Standard Time, Local Time...). There is an option to configure a Syslog server and a Syslog facility. Frankly I don't even know what a Syslog server is. Do I need to set this up to get the Access Point to show the correct date?

Thank you in advance for any help you may provide.

[thisisshanky]

Synchronize the time with an NTP server, that should give you accurate time. This will inturn help your Syslog messages (including event log) to display the appropriate time. You can additionally specify the following commands from CLI to display the correct timestamp.

### Enable NTP client on the AP

ntp server 129.6.15.28

### Enable the service which shows timestamps based on datetime rather than AP uptime

service timestamps log datetime msec localtime show-timezone

### Set the timezone to Central standard time

clock timezone CST -6

clock summer-time CDT recurring

[DanSchmidt]

First off thank you very much for the reply thisisshanky. The time is much closer to being correct now. It is about 20 minutes fast though (which is ok I suppose), but the date is still wrong. This is the timestamp the Event log shows:

Mar 2 14:29:10.484 EST

It should be Feb 25 14:09:10.000 EST

I assumed you wanted me to put the commands into the Access Point via telnet, so that is what I did. This is what I put in (note: I changed CST to EST because we are in the Eastern Time Zone, Also I changed

"clock timezone CST -6" to "clock timezone EST -4" The -4 the number that got me closest to the correct time):

/*

Telnet:

User Access Verification

Username: username

Password:

ap#configure

Configuring from terminal, memory, or network [terminal]?

Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.

ap(config)#ntp server 129.6.15.28

ap(config)#service timestamps log datetime msec localtime show-timezone

ap(config)#clock timezone EST -4

ap(config)#clock summer-time EDT recurring

ap(config)#exit

ap#exit

Connection to host lost.

*/

Again thanks in advance for any help you may provide.

[thisisshanky]

I am in CST, so its 6 hours behind GMT. So shouldnt you be only 5 hours behind GMT (EST) ? (There is only one hour difference between CST and EST)

I have a 1100 AP synchronize to the same server, and it works great. Time is accurate. Even Date is. Once the NTP command has been entered, check whether the AP has synchronized the time with the server..

Sh ntp status

Clock is unsynchronized, stratum 16, no reference clock

This shows that your clock is not synchronized. Also make sure to do a "write mem" to save the configs on your AP if you configured it via CLI. I didnt see that in your above steps.

Look at my timestamp I get on the web interface.

Feb 25 14:45:03.912 CST

[DanSchmidt]

Thank you again for the response. I do a "Sh ntp status" and it shows that the clock is unsynchronized. Am I correct in assuming that it will synchronize itself over time? Or do I have to somehow tell it to synchronize?

Thanks again.

[thisisshanky]

The NTP server that I specified seems to be unreachable at this moment. It was on Friday last week, but not today for some reason. Try another one from the following link.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q262680