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Device management
Device management overview
Device management includes monitoring the operating status of devices and configuring their running
parameters.
NOTE:
The configuration tasks in this document are order independent. You can perform these tasks in any order.
Configuring the device name
A device name identifies a device in a network and works as the user view prompt at the CLI. For
example, if the device name is
Sysname
, the user view prompt is <Sysname>.
Follow these steps to configure the device name:
To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Configure the device name
sysname
sysname
Optional
The default device name is
H3C
.
Changing the system time
You must synchronize your device with a trusted time source by using NTP or changing the system time
before you run it on the network. Network management depends on an accurate system time setting,
because the timestamps of system messages and logs use the system time.
In a small-sized network, you can manually set the system time of each device.
Configuration guidelines
You can change the system time by configuring the relative time, time zone, and daylight saving time. The
configuration result depends on their configuration order (see
). In the first column of this table,
1 represents the
clock datetime
command, 2 represents the
clock timezone
command, and 3 represents
the
clock summer-time
command. To verify the system time setting, use the
display clock
command. This
table assumes that the original system time is 2005/1/1 1:00:00.
Table 15
System time configuration results
Command
Effective system time
Configuration example System time
1
date-time
clock datetime 1:00
2007/1/1
01:00:00 UTC Mon
01/01/2007
2
Original system time
±
zone-offset
clock timezone
zone-time add 1
02:00:00 zone-time Sat
01/01/2005
