Setting The Date And Time On The Distributed Management Card - Sun Microsystems Netra CT 820 Administration Manual

2. Flash update a distributed management card image:
hostname cli>
hostname cli>
where option can be cmsw
be nfs://nfs.server.ip.address/directory/filename or
tftp://tftp.server.ip.address/directory/filename where the software to use in the flash is
installed. If you update rpdf, the distributed management card will reset itself after
finishing the rpdf update.
Setting the Date and Time on the
Distributed Management Card
The distributed management card does not support battery backup time-of-day
because battery life cannot be monitored to predict end of life, and drift in system
clocks can be common. To provide a consistent system time, set the date and time on
the distributed management card using one of these methods:
Manually, using the CLI setdate command. The date and time must be reset
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after any power cycle.
Configuring the distributed management card to be an NTP client, using the CLI
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setntpserver command. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) provides the
correct timestamp for all systems on a network by synchronizing the clocks of all
the systems. A Solaris server, called xntp, sets and maintains the timestamp. Refer
to the online man pages for the xntpd, ntpq, and ntpdate commands for more
information about NTP.
M To Set the Distributed Management Card Date
and Time Manually
1. Log in to the distributed management card.
2. Set the date and time manually:
hostname cli>
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flashupdate -d option
reset dmc
-f path, bcfw -f path, bmcfw -f path, or scdf,
setdate mmddHHMMccyy
and path can