Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide

To set the date and time using NTP

1. Log in to the Flex Appliance Shell, and then type the following:

   set date ntp

2. Press Enter.
3. Follow the prompts to set the NTP server.
4. If you have a multi-node appliance, repeat this procedure on the other node.

To set the date and time by entering the date and time manually

1. Log in to the Flex Appliance Shell, and then type the following:

   set date manual-date

2. Press Enter.
3. Type the date and time, and then press Enter.
4. If you have a multi-node appliance, repeat this procedure on the other node.

To set the time zone

1. Log in to the Flex Appliance Shell, and then type the following:

   set date timezone

2. Press Enter.
3. Type the number that corresponds to your continent or ocean, and then press Enter.
4. Type the number that corresponds to your country, and then press Enter.
5. Type the number that corresponds to your time zone, and then press Enter.
6. Type 1 to verify that the time zone is correct, and then press Enter.

   Note:

   After this step, the following message displays:

   You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line TZ='<timezone>'; export TZ to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in again.

   Here is that TZ value again, this time on standard output so that you can use the /usr/bin/tzselect command in shell scripts:

   This message displays in error. You do not need to perform any additional steps to make the timezone change permanent.

7. If you have a multi-node appliance, repeat this procedure on the other node.