Configuring NTP for the Appliance and Engines

You can use external NTP servers to provide time synchronization for the Engines.

By default, the Appliance uses the public Forcepoint NTP servers. The Management Server and default Log Server synchronize with the Appliance time.

By default, Engines get time setting commands from the Management Server. If an Engine is configured to use NTP and it can successfully get the time from an external NTP server, the Engine ignores time setting commands from the Management Server.

Note: You cannot configure NTP in the Management Client for Secure SD-WAN Manager installations on third-party hardware or virtualization platforms. On third-party hardware or virtualization platforms, the Secure SD-WAN Manager gets the time from the operating system. When you use third-party hardware or virtualization platforms, you must configure NTP at the operating system level on the third-party hardware or virtualization platform. For more information, see Knowledge Base article 9680.