Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual page 139

# Item
3 Month/Day/Year
Time
4 NTP Settings
5 Timezone
(from -12:00 to +14:00)
6 Daylight Savings Time
7 Reset
8 Modify
*This function can be used only with standard server blade X55R4.
Description
The BMC time is independent of the OS time
and is determined by a clock that has an
error by ± 4 minutes per month.
Check the time on the BMC Time Screen,
and adjust the time if the error is large.
(3) LP mode:
LPAR manager sets BMC time to "LP
system time".
- The BMC time will be updated after LPAR
manager startup.
- Change the LP system time when you want
to change the BMC time. BMC time settings
via server blade Web console is rewritten or
ignored.
"Use NTP" (displayed on the screen)
The BMC time is synchronized to the time
provided by the external NTP server. Set the
NTP server address referring to the #4.
"Use the NTP server of the Management
Modules" (displayed on the screen)
BMC time is synchronized to the time of the
management module.
"Use the NTP server of the Management
Modules with RTC time handover on N+M cold
standby failover" * (displayed on the screen)
- BMC time is synchronized with the
management module time.
- Real time clock (RTC) time of the active
partition is taken over to the standby
partition at N+M failover.
"Continue N+M cold standby failover if RTC
handover fails." * (displayed on the screen)
- Available only when "Use the NTP server
of the Management Modules with RTC time
handover on N+M cold standby failover" is
checked
- See "N+M Cold Standby" in Chapter 13 for
details.
Enter each item of your local time.
Enter the NTP server IP address when setting
"Use NTP" in item #2, the Time
Synchronization Method field.
Set the local time zone where the server blade
is installed. This should be identical to the time
zone set in the OS of the server blade.
If you use LP mode, this should be identical to
the time zone of "LP system time".
If DST setting is necessary in the area where
the server blade is installed, enable DST and
set the start and end time.
Cancels the edited settings.
Validates the edited settings and moves to the
confirmation screen.
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