Hello everyone, in this article I’ll discuss about how to configure system time and NTP on Fortigate Firewall.

To configure via GUI,  Select on System -> Settings. As shown bellow you can also set the hostname.

On the Time Zone select your appropriate TimeZone.

On the Set time section, you can configure the time with NTP, PTP or Manual Settings.

On the Select server you can use the Default with FOrtiGuard or Custom set if you need to set custom ntp server. But in the first configuration you can’t with custom server directly in GUI. Activate ke custom ntp server through CLI.

Configure  NTP with config system ntp command. In this article I’ll use the id.pool.ntp.org.

MyFW # config system ntp
MyFW (ntp) # set type custom
MyFW (ntp) # config ntpserver
MyFW (ntpserver) # edit 1
new entry '1' added
MyFW (1) # set server id.pool.ntp.org
MyFW (1) # end
MyFW (ntp) # end
MyFW #

Now check on the GUI, configuration NTP server has been successful.