Administrator Guide

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Post-Setup Tasks
After you complete the initial setup and deployment of your PS Series array, Dell strongly recommends that you perform certain
tasks to nish conguring the group.
Perform the following important tasks to fully congure the group:
• Set the group time and date
• Customize access to the group GUI and CLI
• Congure session settings
• Set up event notications
• Set groupwide volume defaults
• Secure your data
• Add the group to SAN HQ
When you need to update the rmware version that is running on an array, see Updating Firmware for Dell EqualLogic PS Series
Storage Arrays and FS Series Appliances. This document is available from the support site, eqlsupport.dell.com.
About the Group Date and Time
All members of a group share the same time zone. Each array’s clock is set at the factory, based on GMT. The default time zone is
America/New York, ET (Eastern Time).
Group time is initially based on the time set on the array that was used to create the group. Each array you add updates its clock to
match the group’s date and time. The group date and time determines the timestamp used to identify some objects (snapshots, for
example) that you create on the group. Changing the time is a groupwide operation and updates all members.
You can change the group time manually, or you can congure an external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server to automatically set
the same time for all members.
Change or Delete an NTP Server
A PS Series group can use up to three external Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers to automatically set the same time for all the
group members.
The following considerations apply:
• If you are using a dedicated management network, Dell recommends that your NTP server be on the same subnet as the
dedicated management network.
• If the group time changes by an hour or more, either because you manually modied it or the NTP server time changed, the
synchronization operation can take as long as 24 hours.
• If you have a NAS cluster in your PS Series group and are using Active Directory for external authentication, the NTP server
must be the same NTP server used by Active Directory. See the Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Arrays Release Notes for
more information about NTP congurations.
To change or delete NTP servers:
1. Click Group → Group Conguration.
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