user manual

40 Configuring a system for the first time
Tips for using the help window
• In the main panel, clicking the help icon displays help for the last-selected item, whether it is a
component in the Configuration View panel or a subpanel in the main panel.
• In the help window, clicking the arrowed border on the left displays or hides the help contents pane.
A topic remains displayed until you browse to another topic in the help window, display help for a different
item in the main window, or close the help window.
Changing the system date and time
You can change the storage system's date and time, which are displayed in the System Status panel. It is
important to set the date and time so that entries in system logs and event-notification email messages have
correct time stamps.
You can set the date and time manually or configure the system to use Network Time Protocol (NTP) to
obtain them from a network-attached server. When NTP is enabled, and if an NTP server is available, the
system time and date can be obtained from the NTP server. This allows multiple storage devices, hosts, log
files, and so forth to be synchronized. If NTP is enabled but no NTP server is present, the date and time are
maintained as if NTP was not enabled.
NTP server time is provided in Universal Time (UT), which provides several options:
• If you want to synchronize the times and logs between storage devices installed in multiple time zones,
set all the storage devices to use UT.
• If you want to use the local time for a storage device, set its time zone offset.
• If a time server can provide local time rather than UT, configure the storage devices to use that time
server, with no further time adjustment.
To use manual date and time settings
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click the system and select Configuration > System Settings >
Date, Time. The date and time options appear.
2. Set the options:
• Time. Enter the time in the format hh:mm:ss.
•Month.
•Day.
• Year. Enter the year using four digits.
•NTP. Select Disabled.
3. Click Set Time Values.
To obtain the date and time from an NTP server
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click the system and select Configuration > System Settings >
Date, Time. The date and time options appear.
2. Set the options:
•NTP. Select Enabled.
• NTP Time Zone Offset. Optional. If the system timestamps should use the NTP server's time zone
instead of the local time zone, enter the time zone offset.
• NTP Server Address. Optional. If the system should retrieve time values from a specific NTP server,
enter the address of an NTP server. If no IP server address is set, the system listens for time messages
sent by an NTP server in broadcast mode.
3. Click Set Time Values.