Setting The Date And Time; Synchronizing Local Time With An External Source; Setting The Time Zone - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base User Manual

Setting the date and time

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Issue the date command using the following syntax:
date "mmddHHMMyy"
where:
• mm is the month; valid values are 01 through 12.
• dd is the date; valid values are 01 through 31.
• HH is the hour; valid values are 00 through 23.
• MM is minutes; valid values are 00 through 59.
• yy is the year; valid values are 00 through 99 (values greater than 69 are interpreted as
1970–1999, and values less than 70 are interpreted as 2000–2069). For example:
switch:admin> date
Fri Jan 29 17:01:48 UTC 2000
switch:admin> date "0227123003"
Thu Feb 27 12:30:00 UTC 2003
switch:admin>
For details about changing time zones, see the tsTimeZone command in the HP StorageWorks Fabric
OS 5.x command reference guide.

Synchronizing local time with an external source

To synchronize the local time of the principal or primary FCS switch to an external NTP server:
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Issue the following command:
tsclockserver "ipadd"
where ipaddr is the IP address of the NTP server, which the switch must be able to access. This
operand is optional; by default its value is LOCL, which uses the local clock of the principal or primary
switch as the clock server. For example:
switch:admin> tsclockserver
LOCL
switch:admin> tsclockserver "132.163.135.131"
switch:admin> tsclockserver
132.163.135.131
switch:admin>
HP recommends that you synchronize time with an external NTP server, as described on
local time with an external

Setting the time zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Issue the tsTimeZone command as follows:
tsTimeZone [houroffset [, minuteoffset]]
• For Pacific Standard Time enter tsTimeZone -8,0.
• For Central Standard Time enter tsTimeZone -6,0.
• For Eastern Standard Time enter tsTimeZone -5,0.
The default time zone for switches is Universal Time Conversion (UTC), which is 8 hours ahead of
Pacific Standard Time.
The parameters do not apply if the time zone of the switch has already been changed from the default
(8 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time).
See the tsTimeZone command in the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x command reference guide for
detailed information about the command parameters.
source". If you cannot do so, use the next procedure.
Table 3 shows additional time zone conversion values.
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