Brocade 6520 Hardware Reference Manual
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Brocade 6520 configuration
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Setting time zones
You must perform the procedure on
all
switches for which the time zone must be set. However, you
only need to set the time zone once on each switch, because the value is written to nonvolatile
memory.
Use one of the two following procedures to set the time zone. The first procedure requires you to
select the actual time zone and the second requires you to select the country location of the
switch.
The following procedure describes how to set the current time zone using timezone_fmt mode to
Central Standard time.
1. Log into the switch using the default password, which is password.
2. Enter the tsTimeZone command as follows:
switch:admin>
tstimezone
[
--interactive
]/ [,
timezone_fmt
]
Use timezone_fmt to set the time zone by Country/City or by time zone ID, such as PST.
The following example shows how to change the time zone to US/Central.
switch:admin>
tstimezone
Time Zone : US/Pacific
switch:admin>
tstimezone US/Central
switch:admin> tstimezone
Time Zone : US/Central
The following procedure describes how to set the current time zone using interactive mode to
Pacific Standard Time.
1. Type the tsTimeZone command as follows:
switch:admin>
tstimezone --interactive
2. You are prompted to select a general location.
Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
3. Enter the appropriate number or Ctrl-D to quit.
4. At the prompt, select a country location.
5. At the prompt, enter the appropriate number to specify the time zone region or Ctrl-D to quit.
Synchronizing local time using NTP
Perform the following steps to synchronize the local time using NTP.
1. Log into the switch using the default password, which is password.
2. Enter the tsClockServer command:
switch:admin> tsclockserver
"
<ntp1;ntp2>"
where
ntp1
is the IP address or DNS name of the first NTP server, which the switch must be
able to access. The value
ntp2
is the name of the second NTP server and is optional. The
entire operand “
<ntp1;ntp2>
” is optional; by default, this value is LOCL, which uses the local
clock of the principal or primary switch as the clock server.
switch:admin>
tsclockserver
LOCL
