Setting System Information; Setting Date And Time - HP 2000fc Reference Manual

Setting System Information

You can specify information about the system to enable you to identify it. The
system name and location are displayed in the System Panel.
To set system information:
1. Select Manage > General Config > System Information.
The System Information panel is displayed.
2. Type information in each field.
Each value can include 74 characters. Allowed characters include letters, numbers,
hyphens, underscores, and spaces.
System Name – Name of the system as seen by other systems on the network.
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The default is Uninitialized Name.
System Contact – Name of a contact person responsible for the system. The
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default is Uninitialized Contact.
System Location – Location of the system. The default is Uninitialized Location.
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System Information – Other information you want to specify, such as the system's
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purpose or type. The default is Uninitialized Info.
3. Click Save Changes.

Setting Date and Time

You can set the storage system's date and time, which are displayed at the bottom of
the menu area. It is important to set the date and time so that entries in system logs
and event-notification email messages have correct time stamps.
You can set the date and time manually or configure the system to use Network
Time Protocol (NTP) to obtain them from a network-attached server. When NTP is
enabled, and if an NTP server is available, the system time and date can be obtained
from the NTP server. This allows multiple storage devices, hosts, log files, and so
forth to be synchronized.
NTP server time is provided in Universal Time (UT), which provides several
options:
If you want to synchronize the times and logs between storage devices installed
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in multiple time zones, set all the storage devices to use UT.
If you want to use the local time for the device, set its time zone appropriately.
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If a time server can provide local time rather than UT, configure the storage
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devices to use that time server, with no further time adjustment.
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